by APOD Robot » Tue Jan 16, 2018 5:07 am
An Elephant's Trunk in Cepheus
Explanation: With image data from telescopes large and small, this close-up features the dusty Elephant's Trunk Nebula. It winds through the emission nebula and young star cluster
complex IC 1396, in the
high and far off constellation of Cepheus. Also known as vdB 142, the cosmic elephant's trunk is over 20 light-years long. The colorful view highlights bright, swept-back ridges that outline the region's pockets of cool interstellar dust and gas. Such embedded, dark,
tendril-shaped clouds contain the raw material for star formation and hide
protostars within. Nearly 3,000 light-years distant, the relatively faint IC 1396 complex covers a large region on the sky, spanning over 5 degrees. This dramatic scene spans a 1 degree wide field, about the size of 2 Full Moons.
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[b] Explanation: [/b] [url=http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/VDB142-ESO.html]With image data[/url] from telescopes large and small, this close-up features the dusty Elephant's Trunk Nebula. It winds through the emission nebula and young star cluster [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050908.html]complex IC 1396[/url], in the [url=http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/]high and far off[/url] constellation of Cepheus. Also known as vdB 142, the cosmic elephant's trunk is over 20 light-years long. The colorful view highlights bright, swept-back ridges that outline the region's pockets of cool interstellar dust and gas. Such embedded, dark, [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070218.html]tendril-shaped[/url] clouds contain the raw material for star formation and hide [url=http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/1058-ssc2003-06b-Dark-Globule-in-IC-1396]protostars within[/url]. Nearly 3,000 light-years distant, the relatively faint IC 1396 complex covers a large region on the sky, spanning over 5 degrees. This dramatic scene spans a 1 degree wide field, about the size of 2 Full Moons.
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