NGC 1990

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Place

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

NGC 1990 was discovered by William Herschel in 1786 with an 18.7 inch telescope. However, there is doubt that this object exists in reality, as several visual searches and modern astrophotography have failed to identify the exact location and extent of the reflection nebula.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “NGC 1990”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Auteur inconnu, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.