IC5070, The Pelican Nebula (Chris Plonski)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: HD198931 · IC 5070 · LBN 350 · LBN 353 · LBN 359 · LDN 933 · Pelican Nebula

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IC5070, The Pelican Nebula

IC5070 is commonly known as the Pelican Nebula and lies adjacent to the North America Nebula in the constellation of Cygnus about 1800 light years away. The field of view in this image is zoomed in too tightly to make out the pelican head shape, but prominently shows Herbig-Haro 555 in the upper left portion of the central area.A star forms from a collapsing cloud of cold hydrogen gas. As the star grows, it gravitationally attracts more matter, creating a large spinning disk of gas and dust around it. The disk material gradually spirals onto the star and escapes as narrow, high-speed jets along the star’s axis of spin.These narrow jets of gas and matter, ejected by newly born stars at speeds of several hundred kilometers per second are called Herbig–Haro objects named after astronomers George Herbig and Guillermo Haro who studied the outflows in the 1950s. They collide with nearby gas and dust in the interstellar medium, producing bright shock fronts that glow as the gas is heated by friction while the surrounding gas is excited by the high-energy radiation of nearby hot stars.

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RA (center)	20h51m41s.545
RA (top/left)	20h50m12s.792
RA (top/right)	20h50m06s.687
RA (bottom/right)	20h53m08s.952
RA (bottom/left)	20h53m17s.519

Dec (center)	+44°20′11″.33
Dec (top/left)	+44°45′11″.11
Dec (top/right)	+43°56′04″.30
Dec (bottom/right)	+43°55′10″.00
Dec (bottom/left)	+44°44′17″.33

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