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Little Ghost Nebula
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Little Ghost Nebula is what you are,
extra-solar looking lots like a star,
known too as NGC 6369,
planet-shaped, round, in a ring-like design.
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You’re also spoken of as being faint,
emitting light from the nebula quaint
with main ring structure a light-year across,
and glow from ionized atoms gives gloss
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correspondingly of red, green, and blue,
nitrogen atoms with bright-colored hue.
Not to be stymied with Nebula Ghost
or Ghost Head Nebula, possibly dosed
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with light released, perhaps binary kind.
Still shine emitted may yet bring to mind
some sort of beauteous prismatic craze
causing star-watchers to fasten their gaze
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on Ophiuchus and thus to behold
a lovely nebula with truth untold.
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~ Harley White
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Little Ghost Nebula
Constellation: Ophiuchus
Distance: 3,500 light years
RA: 17h 29m 20.457s
Dec: −23° 45′ 34.77″
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ghost_Nebula
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Little Ghost Nebula, also known as NGC 6369, is a planetary nebula in the constellation Ophiuchus.
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Credit: Hubble Heritage Team, NASA
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