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Nebula

Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302)

A bipolar planetary nebula in Scorpius with one of the hottest known central stars.

Type
Nebula
Domain
Scientific connections
Connections
2

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center · NASA media (public domain)

SOFIA Science Imagery
SOFIA Science Imagery · SOFIA image, RGB = 37, 24, 20 microns; NASA/DLR/USRA/DSI/FORCAST team/M. Werner et al./A. Helton, J. Rho; HST image: NASA/ESA/NSF/AURA/Hubble Heritage Team/STScI/B. Balick, V. Icke, G. Mellema

Experience system V6

Nebular structure profile

A visual story for gas, dust, ionization, star-forming context, and observational imagery.

Deep-sky mapStructure diagramImage provenanceRelated objects
  1. 01

    Observe

    HUBBLE imagery anchors the visual reading with licensed source metadata.

  2. 02

    Measure

    Measurement panels use graph coverage, catalog identifiers, and source availability without inventing values.

  3. 03

    Locate

    Part of New General Catalogue (NGC).

  4. 04

    Connect

    2 graph relations shape the knowledge viewport.

Object type
Nebula
Graph relations
2
Verified sources
2
Image records
3
Domain
Scientific connections
Status
Graph entity

Scientific map

Atlas context

Butterfly Nebula (NGC 630...coordinate fields shown only when available
  • Part of

    New General Catalogue (NGC)

  • Located in

    Scorpius

Original SVG diagram

Deep-sky morphology

Galaxy-scale viewBulge / nucleusDisk or stellar haloMorphology comes from observationNebula
Object class
Nebula
Catalog numbers
Not recorded
Image records
3
Graph relations
2
New General Catal...ScorpiusButterfly Nebula (NGC 6...Nebula

Visual knowledge graph

Relationships, not isolated facts

This viewport is generated from the Asteria knowledge graph. Science, culture, and interpretive links remain separated by domain so visual context never changes the evidentiary meaning of a relation.

Image provenance

Photography as evidence

3 cleared visual records
Hubble Sees the Wings of a Butterfly: The Twin Jet Nebula

Hubble Sees the Wings of a Butterfly: The Twin Jet Nebula

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center · NASA media (public domain)

SOFIA Science Imagery

SOFIA Science Imagery

SOFIA image, RGB = 37, 24, 20 microns; NASA/DLR/USRA/DSI/FORCAST team/M. Werner et al./A. Helton, J. Rho; HST image: NASA/ESA/NSF/AURA/Hubble Heritage Team/STScI/B. Balick, V. Icke, G. Mellema · NASA media (public domain)

Space Butterfly

Space Butterfly

NASA/JPL-Caltech · NASA media (public domain)

Continue the atlas

Curated next objects

catalog

New General Catalogue (NGC)

A catalogue of nearly 8,000 deep-sky objects.

constellation

Scorpius

Scorpius is a zodiacal constellation of the southern sky, recognized as one of the 88 modern constellations.

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Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543)

A complex planetary nebula in the constellation Draco, one of the first to be studied with a spectroscope.

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Flame Nebula (NGC 2024)

An emission nebula and star-forming region in Orion, near the star Alnitak.

nebula

IC 4592

Reflection nebula in Scorpius, magnitude 3.9.

nebula

IC 4605

Nebula in Scorpius, magnitude 4.7.

Observation

How this was captured

Source
HUBBLE
Observation date
2017-12-08

Gallery

Space Butterfly

What looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

2019

NASA/JPL-Caltech · NASA media (public domain)

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Data

Scientific data & provenance

Data & provenance

Stable ID
nebula:ngc-6302
Type
Nebula
Domain
Scientific connections
Relationships
2
Graph version
1.0.0

Dataset membership

Open data

In the graph export: graph.json · graph.jsonld

Planned API: GET /api/v0/entities/nebula:ngc-6302

Scientific quality

Partial
Unreviewed2 sourcesv1.0.0

3 of 6 applicable dimensions complete, 1 partial

Description
Complete
Source coverage
Complete
Relationship coverage
Partial
Review coverage
None
Citation coverage
None
Image coverage
Complete
Timeline coverage
Not applicable

Scientific entity. Dimensions that cannot apply to this object are excluded rather than counted as gaps. See the evidence framework and authority dashboard.

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Sources & references

The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.

  • NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration

    Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.

    Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.

  • ESAEuropean Space Agency

    European missions, observatories, and space science imagery.