by APOD Robot » Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:09 am
Monsters of IC 1396
Explanation: Is there a monster in
IC 1396? Known to some as the
Elephant's Trunk Nebula, parts of the glowing gas and
dust clouds of this
star formation region may appear to take on foreboding forms, some
nearly human. The entire nebula might even look like a face of a monster. The only real
monster here, however, is a
bright young star too far from
Earth to be dangerous.
Energetic light from this star is eating away the
dust of the dark
cometary globule at the top right the image.
Jets and
winds of particles
emitted from this star are also pushing away ambient gas and
dust. Nearly 3,000
light-years distant, the
IC 1396 complex is relatively faint and covers a region on the sky with an apparent width of more than 10
full moons. Recently, over 100 young stars have been
discovered forming in the nebula.
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