NGC 2068

E467981

astronomical object diffuse nebula reflection nebula star-forming region

NGC 2068, also known as the reflection nebula M78, is a bright star-forming cloud of gas and dust located in the constellation Orion.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
NGC 2068 canonical	1

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	astronomical object ⓘ diffuse nebula ⓘ reflection nebula ⓘ star-forming region ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	M78 NERFINISHED ⓘ Messier 78 NERFINISHED ⓘ
angularSize	8 arcminutes × 6 arcminutes ⓘ
apparentMagnitudeV	8.0 ⓘ
associatedWith	Herbig–Haro objects NERFINISHED ⓘ T Tauri stars NERFINISHED ⓘ young stellar objects ⓘ
bestSeenFrom	Northern Hemisphere NERFINISHED ⓘ
bestViewingMonth	January ⓘ
catalog	Messier Catalogue NERFINISHED ⓘ New General Catalogue NERFINISHED ⓘ
contains	dark dust lanes ⓘ embedded star cluster ⓘ molecular gas ⓘ
declination	+00° 03′ ⓘ
discoveredBy	Pierre Méchain NERFINISHED ⓘ
discoveryDate	1780 ⓘ
distanceFromEarth	approximately 1350 light-years ⓘ approximately 400 parsecs ⓘ
hasColor	blue reflection nebulosity ⓘ
hasFeature	scattered starlight from embedded hot stars ⓘ
hasMessierNumber	78 ⓘ
hasStarFormationActivity	ongoing ⓘ
hasType	reflection-dominated nebula ⓘ
includedIn	Sharpless catalog of H II regions (as surrounding complex) ⓘ
isBrightIn	infrared ⓘ visible light ⓘ
isPartOf	Orion constellation region near Orion’s Belt ⓘ
locatedIn	Milky Way ⓘ Orion Molecular Cloud Complex NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedInConstellation	Orion NERFINISHED ⓘ
namedAfter	its New General Catalogue designation ⓘ
near	NGC 2064 NERFINISHED ⓘ NGC 2067 NERFINISHED ⓘ NGC 2071 NERFINISHED ⓘ
observedIn	infrared wavelengths ⓘ optical wavelengths ⓘ
partOf	Orion B molecular cloud NERFINISHED ⓘ
rightAscension	05h 46m ⓘ
visibleWith	small telescopes under dark skies ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: NGC 2068
Description of subject: NGC 2068, also known as the reflection nebula M78, is a bright star-forming cloud of gas and dust located in the constellation Orion.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Orion Molecular Cloud Complex → contains → NGC 2068 ⓘ