Image of the day 12/12/2012

    Elephant's Trunk nebula, Metsavainio

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    Weather doesn't support any imaging, so I reprocessed an older image, the Elephant's Trunk nebula.

    The elephant's Trunk nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust in the star cluster IC 1396.

    This ionized gas region locates in the constellation Cepheus about 2400 light years away.

    Formation is coursed by a stellar wind, radiation pressure, from a group of massive young stars.

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    Elephant's Trunk nebula, Metsavainio