Deep-Sky Dreams: Coddington’s Nebula

Coddington’s Nebula is an obscure, fuzzy object discovered by the American astronomer Edwin Coddington (1870–1950) in 1898. The popular name for this object is a misnomer; it’s actually a galaxy, and was identified as such by the 1930s, in the era when Edwin Hubble was working through the initial classification of galaxies. It is alsoContinue reading “Deep-Sky Dreams: Coddington’s Nebula”
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