Oregon stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up throughout August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and even a visible nebula. A formation known as the "dumbbell nebula" ...

The Dumbbell Nebula or Messier 27 was catalogued by Charles Messier on July 12, 1764. In a telescope, its two lobes make it look like a dumbbell, which explains the nickname.

M27, the Dumbbell Nebula, is identified as the first planetary nebula ever discovered, observable at magnitude 7.4 with an apparent size of 8 by 6 arcminutes. Its distinctive morphology includes an ...

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