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- Mon Aug 26, 2013 2:47 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027... (2013 Aug 26)
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Re: APOD: Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027... (2013 Aug 26)
NGC 7027 looks like the "Mermaid's Purse Nebula". A mermaids purse is a shark egg case, also known as a chondrichthyes. Not all shark egg cases look like this, but many do.