Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  B160  ·  B161  ·  B162  ·  B163  ·  B365  ·  B366  ·  B367  ·  B368  ·  Erakis  ·  IC 1396  ·  PK097+03.1  ·  PK098+02.1  ·  PK098+04.1  ·  PK100+04.1  ·  Sh2-128  ·  Sh2-131  ·  The star Garnet Star (μCep)  ·  VdB142  ·  mu. Cep
IC1396 HOO, Sergiy_Vakulenko
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IC1396 HOO

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IC1396 HOO

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Stunning emission nebula IC 1396 mixes glowing cosmic gas and dark dust clouds in the high and far off constellation of Cepheus. Energized by the bright central star seen here, this star forming region sprawls across hundreds of light-years, spanning over three degrees on the sky while nearly 3,000 light-years from planet Earth. Among the intriguing dark shapes within IC 1396, the winding Elephant's Trunk nebula lies just above center. Stars could still be forming inside the dark shapes by gravitational collapse. But as the denser clouds are eroded away by powerful stellar winds and radiation, any forming stars will ultimately be cutoff from the reservoir of star stuff. The presented color view is a composition of image data from narrowband filters, mapping emission from the nebula's atomic oxygen and hydrogen into blue and red hues.

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IC1396 HOO, Sergiy_Vakulenko