NGC 6790 Eye of the Eagle

Magnitude 10.45 planetary nebula located 19.000 light-years away in the constellation Aquila. The central star is a white dwarf with a temperature of around 73,500 K and a photographic magnitude of 11.1. It has a mass of 0.6 solar masses, having evolved from a star with a mass about the same as the Sun.

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