This week on Looking Up we are California Nebula dreamin'. We humans like to find order in chaos, and we have a trait, called Pareidolia, which leads us to try to see patterns in, well, lots of ...

Designated NGC 1499, the California Nebula is an emission nebula stretching 2½° long and ½° wide. Its apparent magnitude of 6 suggests it can be seen in small optics.

NGC 1499, known as the "California Nebula" due to its resemblance to the shape of California, is a luminous nebula emitting light in various wavelengths. It stretches about 100 light-years (1 ...

The California Nebula is seen in its entirety in this image from NASA’s WISE mission, covering over 25 square degrees of sky. In this infrared view, the dust clouds underlying the nebula glimmer ...

A deep-space panorama shows Comet 46P/Wirtanen, the Pleiades star cluster and a meteor crossing in front of the California Nebula.