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Rosette Nebula
  میغ ِ گلسان  
miq-e golsân
Fr.: nébuleuse de la Rosette  

A giant H II region of about 1° in diameter, lying about 5000 light-years away in the Milky Way, the constellation → Monoceros. It is ionized by the cluster NGC 2244, a group of hot young stars at the center of the nebula. Also called M16, the brighter portions of the nebula have been assigned different NGC numbers: 2237, 2238, 2239, and 2246.

Etymology (EN): Rosette “a rose-shaped ornament,” from Fr. rosette, from O.Fr. rosette, diminutive of rose “rose;” L. rosa, probably from
Gk. wrodon (Aeolic), then rhodon, a loan from Iranian, as below; → nebula.

Etymology (PE): Miq, → nebula; golsân “resembling rose, flower,” from gol “flower, rose,” variants vard (sohre-vard “red rose”), Semnâni dialect vela “rose;”
Mid.Pers. *vard, gul, loaned in Arm. vard and Ar. ward; Av. varəδa- “rose;” loaned in Gk. wrodon (Aeolic), then rhodon; + -sân “manner, semblance” (variant sun, Mid.Pers. sân “manner, kind,” Sogdian šôné “career”).