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RCW 106 is a large star-forming nebula in the Constellation Norma. RCW 106 is visible in the direction of the R103 OB association and is embedded in a 100 thousand solar mass 28 pc x 94 pc giant molecular cloud. The
RCW catalogue
The RCW Catalogue (from Rodgers, Campbell & Whiteoak) is an astronomical catalogue of Hα-emission H II region, regions in the southern Milky Way, described in . It contains 182 objects, including many of the earlier Gum catalogue (84 items) objec ...
designates the two brightest regions of this nebula as RCW 106a and RCW 106b but these do not appear to be distinct objects.
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{{reflist H II regions Norma (constellation)