THE TRIFID NEBULA
Geography
The Trifid Nebula (NGC 6514) is a star-forming region in the Scutum spiral arm of the Milky Way. About 9,000 thousand light-years from Earth towards the southern constellation of Sagittarius, it offers a relevant portrait showing the early stages of a star’s life from conception to birth. Violent winds and extremely high temperatures of newly kindled stars agitate and transform the Trifid's clouds into a seething cauldron of unimaginable proportions; it offers an opportunity to see the three types of nebula that occur throughout the Universe: reflection, emission and absorption.
The Trifid is a relatively new star nursery - only 300,000 years old. This makes it an ideal creche and research outpost for the Greater Nifidium Convocation. Three witherwards are established on terraformed planets within the nebula’s systems: Straka, Swith, and Tego. |
TRIFID NEBULA BASIC DATA
M 20 -- Open (galactic Cluster)
M 20 -- Open (galactic Cluster)
Other object types:
ICRS coord. (ep=J2000) : FK5 coord. (ep=J2000 eq=2000) : FK4 coord. (ep=B1950 eq=1950) : Gal coord. (ep=J2000) : Proper motions mas/yr : Radial velocity / Redshift / cz : Angular size (arcmin): |
*iC (), Rad (CTB,GRS,...), Cl* (C,Cl,...), OpC (Ref,OCISM,...), * (CSI,[SC95]), C?* (Ref), HII (LBN)
18 02 42.0 -22 58 18 (Optical) [ ] E 2009MNRAS.399.2146W 18 02 42.0 -22 58 18 [ ] 17 59 39.9 -22 58 23 [ ] 007.0859 -00.2873 [ ] 2.63 -1.01 [0.92 0.61 180] D 2009MNRAS.399.2146W V(km/s) -2.13 [1.62] / z(~) -0.000007 [0.000005] / cz -2.13 [1.62] D 2005A&A...438.1163K 28.00 28.00 90 (~) D 2013A&A...560A..76M |