NGC 2024

E460825

NGC 2024, also known as the Flame Nebula, is a bright emission nebula and active star-forming region located in the constellation Orion near the Horsehead Nebula.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
NGC 2024 canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf H II region
astronomical object
emission nebula
star-forming region
ageOfEmbeddedCluster ~200,000 years
angularSize ~30 arcminutes
apparentMagnitudeV ~10.0
bestSeenIn long-exposure astrophotography
wide-field telescopes
catalog New General Catalogue
contains dense molecular gas
dust lanes
embedded star cluster
pre-main-sequence stars
protostars
young stellar objects
declination −01° 51′
discoveredBy William Herschel
discoveryDate 1786
distanceFromEarth ~1350 light-years
~415 parsecs
dominantEmissionLines [O III]
[S II]
hydrogen alpha
galacticLatitude −16.3°
galacticLongitude 206.5°
hasAlternativeName Flame Nebula
hasColor reddish
hasInfraredExcessSources yes
hasNotableFeature dark dust lane resembling flames
hasStarFormationActivity ongoing
hasXRayEmission yes
ionizingSource Alnitak
locatedIn Milky Way
Orion Molecular Cloud Complex
locatedInConstellation Orion
nearObject Alnitak
Horsehead Nebula
obscuredBy interstellar dust
observedInSurvey Chandra X-ray Observatory
Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
Very Large Array
partOf Orion B molecular cloud
regionType massive star-forming region
rightAscension 05h 41m
spectralType H II emission
visibleIn infrared wavelengths
optical wavelengths
radio wavelengths

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Horsehead Nebula near NGC 2024
Orion containsDeepSkyObject NGC 2024
subject linked to: Orion constellation
NGC 2071 inSameRegionAs NGC 2024