NGC 1714

{{short description|Emission nebula in Dorado}}

{{Infobox nebula|name=NGC 1714|image=NGC 1714 DSS.jpg|caption=|credit=|type=emission|type2=|epoch=J2000|subtype=|class=|ra={{RA|04|52}}|dec={{DEC|±66|55}}|dist_ly=|dist_pc=|dist_z=|appmag_v=11.61|appdia=|size_v=1.1 arcmin|constellation=Dorado|radius_ly=|radius_pc=|dimensions=|absmag_v=|notes=|names=}}

NGC 1714 is an emission nebula in the constellation of Dorado.{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248771129 |title=Monochromatic observations of three nebular objects in the direction of NGC 1714 |website=ResearchGate |access-date=16 March 2019}}{{Cite web |url=https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC1714|title=The emission NGC 1714 - In-The-Sky.org|last=Ford|first=Dominic|website=in-the-sky.org|language=en|access-date=2019-03-15}} It is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud{{Cite web|url=http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=NGC+1714&submit=submit+id|title=NGC 1714|website=simbad|access-date=2019-03-15}} and was discovered by John Herschel on 2 November 1834.{{Cite web|url=https://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc17.htm#1714|title=New General Catalog Objects: NGC 1700 - 1749|website=cseligman.com|access-date=2019-03-19}} A study investigating the chemical composition of HII regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud was conducted in it, finding a larger deuterium density than previously thought, leading to (with current knowledge) larger than accepted age of the universe.{{Cite journal|last=Piembert|first=Manuel|title=Chemical composition of H II regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud and its cosmological implications|date=May 1974|journal=The Astrophysical Journal|volume=193|page=327|doi=10.1086/153166 |doi-access=free|bibcode=1974ApJ...193..327P }} Candidates for planetary nebula have also been found in the vicinity of NGC 1714.{{Cite journal|last1=Louise|first1=R.|last2=Maurice|date=August 1984|title=Monochromatic observations of three nebular objects in the direction of NGC 1714|journal=Astrophysics and Space Science|volume=103|issue=1 |pages=195–197|doi=10.1007/BF00650056|bibcode=1984Ap&SS.103..195L |s2cid=120049106}}