by NGC 2467, nicknamed the "Skull and Crossbones Nebula",[3] is a star-forming region whose appearance has occasionally also been likened to that of a colorful mandrill.
It includes areas where large clouds of hydrogen gas incubate new stars.
NGC 2467 had long been considered to be the nucleus of the Puppis I association.
However, NGC 2467 does not represent a distinct open cluster; rather, it represents a superimposition of several stellar groups along the same approximate line of sight that have distinctly different distances and distinctly different radial velocities.
It has been estimated that H19, H18, and the S311 nebula (in which lies HD 64315) are about 6.4 kiloparsecs (21,000 light-years), 5.9 kpc (19,000 ly), and 6.3 kpc (21,000 ly) away, placing them in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way.
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It includes areas where large clouds of hydrogen gas incubate new stars.
NGC 2467 had long been considered to be the nucleus of the Puppis I association.
However, NGC 2467 does not represent a distinct open cluster; rather, it represents a superimposition of several stellar groups along the same approximate line of sight that have distinctly different distances and distinctly different radial velocities.
It has been estimated that H19, H18, and the S311 nebula (in which lies HD 64315) are about 6.4 kiloparsecs (21,000 light-years), 5.9 kpc (19,000 ly), and 6.3 kpc (21,000 ly) away, placing them in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way.
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