NGC 3199

NGC 3199
Emission nebula
VLT Survey Telescope
Observation data: J2000 epoch
Right ascension10h 16m 32.8s[1]
Declination−57° 56′ 02″[1]
ConstellationCarina
DesignationsGUM 28, RCW 48[1]
See also: Lists of nebulae

NGC 3199[2][1][3] is an emission nebula in the constellation Carina. It is commonly known as the Banana Nebula[4] or Carina's Smile.[5] The object was discovered in 1826 by the Scottish astronomer James Dunlop.[6] It was thought to be the bow shock around the central star, WR 18, an especially hot and luminous Wolf–Rayet star; however, it was determined that the nebula formed due to the composition of local space, not because of the star's movement.[7]

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  2. ^ "Your NED Search Results". nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  3. ^ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 3199". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  4. ^ Chadwick, Stephen; Cooper, Ian (11 December 2012). Imaging the Southern Sky. Springer. p. 75. ISBN 978-1461447498.
  5. ^ Stoyan, Ronald; Schurig, Stephan (2014). interstellarum Deep Sky Atlas. Erlangen: Cambridge University Press; Oculum-Verlag GmbH. ISBN 978-1-107-50338-0. OCLC 920437579.
  6. ^ Seligman, Courtney. "NGC Objects: NGC 3150 - 3199". cseligman.com. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  7. ^ Toalá, J. A; Marston, A. P; Guerrero, M. A; Chu, Y.-H; Gruendl, R. A (2017). "Hot Gas in the Wolf–Rayet Nebula NGC 3199". The Astrophysical Journal. 846 (1): 76. arXiv:1708.02177. Bibcode:2017ApJ...846...76T. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa8554. S2CID 119076796.