• Source: NGC 4361

NGC 4361 (also known as the Lawn Sprinkler Nebula or Garden Sprinkler Nebula) is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Corvus. It is included in the Astronomical League's Herschel 400 Observing Program.




Central star


NGC 4361's central star, which has the Henry Draper Catalogue designation HD 107969, is an extremely hot [WC] Wolf-Rayet type star. Its temperature is 126,000 K. It is nearly 18,000 times brighter than the Sun, but is only 6.1% its size. This star left the asymptotic giant branch between 5776 and 8018 years ago.




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Media related to NGC 4361 at Wikimedia Commons

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Messier 98
• Daftar eksoplanet
• NGC 4361
• List of planetary nebulae
• Corvus (constellation)
• Celestia
• List of Wolf-Rayet stars
• List of star extremes
• NGC 440
• Herschel 400 Catalogue
• NGC 4036
• NGC 4041