The Gum catalog is an
astronomical catalog of 84
emission nebulae in the southern sky. It was made by the
Australia
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astronomer
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Colin Stanley Gum
Colin Stanley Gum (4 June 1924 – 29 April 1960) was an Australian astronomer known for his cataloguing of emission nebulae and the publication of his findings.
Early life and education
Gum was born at Quambi Hospital in Adelaide, South Austr ...
(1924-1960) at
Mount Stromlo Observatory using wide field photography. Gum published his findings in 1955 in a study entitled ''A study of diffuse southern H-alpha nebulae'' which presented a catalog of 84 nebulae or nebular complexes. Similar catalogs include the
Sharpless catalog
The Sharpless catalog is a list of 313 H II regions (emission nebulae) intended to be comprehensive north of declination −27°. (It does include some nebulae south of that declination as well.) The first edition was published in 1953 with 14 ...
and the
RCW catalog
The RCW Catalogue (from Rodgers, Campbell & Whiteoak) is an astronomical catalogue of Hα-emission regions in the southern Milky Way, described in . It contains 182 objects, including many of the earlier Gum catalogue (84 items) objects.
The la ...
, and many of the Gum objects are repeated in these other catalogs. However, the RCW and Gum catalogs were mainly of the southern hemisphere (Mount Stromlo is in the southern hemisphere)
The
Gum Nebula is named for Gum, who discovered it as Gum 12; it is an
emission nebula that can be found in the southern
constellation
A constellation is an area on the celestial sphere in which a group of visible stars forms Asterism (astronomy), a perceived pattern or outline, typically representing an animal, mythological subject, or inanimate object.
The origins of the e ...
s
Vela and
Puppis
Puppis is a constellation in the southern sky. Puppis, the Latin translation of "poop deck", was originally part of an over-large constellation Argo Navis (the ship of Jason and the Argonauts), which centuries after its initial description, was ...
.
Examples
List
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Gum 1
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Gum 2
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Gum 3
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Gum 4
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Gum 5
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Gum 6
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Gum 7
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Gum 8
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Gum 9
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Gum 10
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Gum 12
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Gum 13
Gum may refer to:
Types of gum
* Adhesive
* Bubble gum
* Chewing gum
* Gum (botany), sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
** Gum arabic, made from the sap of ''Acacia senegal'', an Old World tree ...
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Gum 14
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Gum 15
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Gum 16
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Gum 17
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Gum 18
Gum may refer to:
Types of gum
* Adhesive
* Bubble gum
* Chewing gum
* Gum (botany), sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
** Gum arabic, made from the sap of ''Acacia senegal'', an Old World tree sp ...
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Gum 19
RCW 34 (Gum 19) - H II region and the emission nebula located in the constellation Vela. It is located approximately 22,000 light years from Earth. Named after Australian astronomer Colin Stanley Gum.
The nebula RCW 34 is relatively dark. H ...
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Gum 20
RCW 36 (also designated Gum 20) is an emission nebula containing an open cluster in the constellation Vela. This H II region is part of a larger-scale star-forming complex known as the Vela Molecular Ridge (VMR), a collection of molecular c ...
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Gum 21
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Gum 22
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Gum 23
Gum may refer to:
Types of gum
* Adhesive
* Bubble gum
* Chewing gum
* Gum (botany), sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
** Gum arabic, made from the sap of ''Acacia senegal'', an Old World tree ...
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Gum 24
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Gum 25
Gum may refer to:
Types of gum
* Adhesive
* Bubble gum
* Chewing gum
* Gum (botany), sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
** Gum arabic, made from the sap of ''Acacia senegal'', an Old World tree ...
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Gum 26
Gum may refer to:
Types of gum
* Adhesive
* Bubble gum
* Chewing gum
* Gum (botany), sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
** Gum arabic, made from the sap of ''Acacia senegal'', an Old World tree ...
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Gum 27
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Gum 28
Gum may refer to:
Types of gum
* Adhesive
* Bubble gum
* Chewing gum
* Gum (botany), sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
** Gum arabic, made from the sap of ''Acacia senegal'', an Old World tree ...
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Gum 29
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Gum 30
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Gum 31
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Gum 32
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Gum 33
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Gum 34
Gum may refer to:
Types of gum
* Adhesive
* Bubble gum
* Chewing gum
* Gum (botany), sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
** Gum arabic, made from the sap of ''Acacia senegal'', an Old World tree ...
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Gum 35
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Gum 36
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Gum 37
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Gum 38
Gum may refer to:
Types of gum
* Adhesive
* Bubble gum
* Chewing gum
* Gum (botany), sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
** Gum arabic, made from the sap of ''Acacia senegal'', an Old World tree sp ...
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Gum 39
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Gum 40
Gum may refer to:
Types of gum
* Adhesive
* Bubble gum
* Chewing gum
* Gum (botany), sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
** Gum arabic, made from the sap of ''Acacia senegal'', an Old World tree sp ...
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Gum 41
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Gum 42
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Gum 43
Gum may refer to:
Types of gum
* Adhesive
* Bubble gum
* Chewing gum
* Gum (botany), sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
** Gum arabic, made from the sap of ''Acacia senegal'', an Old World tree ...
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Gum 44
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Gum 45
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Gum 46
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Gum 47
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Gum 48
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Gum 49
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Gum 50
Gum may refer to:
Types of gum
* Adhesive
* Bubble gum
* Chewing gum
* Gum (botany), sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
** Gum arabic, made from the sap of ''Acacia senegal'', an Old World tree ...
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Gum 51
Gum may refer to:
Types of gum
* Adhesive
* Bubble gum
* Chewing gum
* Gum (botany), sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
** Gum arabic, made from the sap of ''Acacia senegal'', an Old World tree ...
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Gum 52
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Gum 53
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Gum 54
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Gum 55
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Gum 56
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Gum 57
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Gum 58
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Gum 59
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Gum 60
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Gum 61
Gum may refer to:
Types of gum
* Adhesive
* Bubble gum
* Chewing gum
* Gum (botany), sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
** Gum arabic, made from the sap of ''Acacia senegal'', an Old World tree ...
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Gum 62
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Gum 63
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Gum 64
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Gum 65
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Gum 66
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Gum 67
Gum may refer to:
Types of gum
* Adhesive
* Bubble gum
* Chewing gum
* Gum (botany), sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
** Gum arabic, made from the sap of ''Acacia senegal'', an Old World tree ...
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Gum 68
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Gum 69
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Gum 70a, Gum 70b, HD 100546 Nebulae
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Gum 71
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Gum 72
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Gum 73
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Gum 74
Gum may refer to:
Types of gum
* Adhesive
* Bubble gum
* Chewing gum
* Gum (botany), sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
** Gum arabic, made from the sap of ''Acacia senegal'', an Old World tree sp ...
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Gum 75
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Gum 76
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Gum 77
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Gum 78
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Gum 79
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Gum 80
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Gum 81
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Gum 82
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Gum 83
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Gum 84
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Gum 85
See also
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RCW Catalogue
The RCW Catalogue (from Rodgers, Campbell & Whiteoak) is an astronomical catalogue of Hα-emission regions in the southern Milky Way, described in . It contains 182 objects, including many of the earlier Gum catalogue (84 items) objects.
The la ...
References
Sources
Gum NebulaThe Cloud HuntersIllustrated Gum Catalog
External links
Illustrated and annotated commentary of Gum objects
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