Pencil Nebula NGC 2736
NGC 2736, also known as the Pencil Nebula due to its elongated shape, is a nebula in the Inner Orion Spur. It is 5 light-years long and 815 light-years from Sol, near Guardian space. It is just a small part of the Vela supernova remnant, the debris cloud, 100 light years across, of a star that exploded 11,000 years ago (the Vela Pulsar).[1] An Asteroid Base, New Growth, services a terraforming planet in the closest system to the nebula, Pencil Sector EL-Y d5.
The Pencil Nebula moves at about 644,000 kilometers per hour (400,000 miles per hour).[2]