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      NGC 6729
      Wallpaper author:
      Rune Matthijssens

      26 Jan 2022

      NGC 6729

      NGC 6729 (also known as Caldwell 68) is a reflection/emission nebula in the constellation Corona Australis. It was discovered by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt in 1861.

      This fan-shaped nebula opens from the star R Coronae Australis toward the star T CrA to the south-east. R CrA is a pre-main-sequence star in the Corona Australis molecular complex, one of the closer star-forming regions of the galaxy at a distance of 130 pc. NGC 6729 is a variable nebula which shows irregular variations in brightness and in shape.

      This dataset came from the Pro-Dataset, which I don't remember the details of.

      Dataset from which the image was processed

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