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)

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