Such systems are not rare, and commonly appear close to or within bright nebulae.

The faint wisps of a bright nebula filled the foreground far away.

Within the large bright nebula is a much smaller feature, immediately surrounding Eta Carinae itself.

The fires of this bright nebula were as cold as the dust-laden blackness of the dark one.

In 1922, Hubble published the result of his investigations on bright nebulae.

Sh2-54 is an extended bright nebula in the constellation of Serpens.

It is a small, bright planetary nebula with something to offer in telescopes of most sizes.

It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky.

Suppose you can pick us out a line of approach along which we will occult no stars and no bright nebulae?

It is the most southern of all the bright planetary nebula in the sky, and remains completely invisible to all northern observers.