SDSO-1

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From English Strottner-Drechsler-Sainty Object 1, from Strottner+Drechsler+Sainty+object+1. From French Strottner+Sainty and German Drechsler; French and German astrophotographers Marcel Drechsler, Yann Sainty, Xavier Strottner; the names of the discoverers of the celestial object.

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SDSO-1

  1. (astronomy, initialism) A nebula in Andromeda constellation A gas cloud composed of seemingly just oxygen, shining in OIII emission radiation, located next to the Andromeda Galaxy on the dome of the sky. The first such extrasolar oxygen cloud discovered.

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