NGC 2020 is an
HII Region
An H II region or HII region is a region of interstellar atomic hydrogen that is ionized. It is typically in a molecular cloud of partially ionized gas in which star formation has recently taken place, with a size ranging from one to hundre ...
surrounding the
Wolf-Rayet star BAT99-59.
It is located in the
Large Magellanic Cloud
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), or Nubecula Major, is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs (≈160,000 light-years), the LMC is the second- or third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way, after the ...
.
The nebula was discovered on 30 December 1836 by
John Herschel
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (; 7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, experimental photographer who invented the blueprint and did botanical wor ...
. Together with
NGC 2014
NGC 2014 is a red emission nebula surrounding an open cluster of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, at a distance of about 163,000 light-years.
The nebula was discovered on 3 August 1826 by James Dunlop. Together with NGC 2020 it makes up what ...
it makes up what is called the Cosmic Reef.
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H II regions
Large Magellanic Cloud
Dorado (constellation)
2020
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