NGC 7027 · planetary nebula
Magic Carpet Nebula
NGC 7027, also known as the Jewel Bug Nebula or the Magic Carpet Nebula, is a very young and dense planetary nebula located around 3,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.
Image: Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Kastner (RIT). CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Identity & coordinates
Identification
- Primary designation
- NGC 7027
- All designations
- NGC 7027 · Magic Carpet
- Object type
- Planetary Nebula
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Best viewing
- Summer · Autumn
Coordinates & physical
- Right ascension (J2000)
- 21h 07m 01s
- Declination (J2000)
- +42° 14' 10"
- Apparent magnitude (V)
- —
- Distance
- —
Visibility tonight
The science
NGC 7027, also known as the Jewel Bug Nebula or the Magic Carpet Nebula, is a very young and dense planetary nebula located around 3,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. Discovered in 1878 by Édouard Stephan using the 800 mm (31 in) reflector at Marseille Observatory, it is one of the smallest planetary nebulae and by far the most extensively studied.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia · CC-BY-SA-4.0
References
- SIMBAD Not resolved
- NED Fetched May 8, 2026 View in NED ↗
- Wikipedia Fetched May 8, 2026 Read full article ↗
Wikipedia title resolved via common_name+suffix — added the type suffix to the seed common name.
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- coordinates: SIMBAD missing → NED used