Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Gemini (Gem)  ·  Contains:  Eskimo Nebula  ·  NGC 2392  ·  PGC 1637323
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Eskimo Nebula (NGC2392), DoubleStarPhotography
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Eskimo Nebula (NGC2392)

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Eskimo Nebula (NGC2392)

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Looking like a small face framed by a fur-lined hood, this is the breathtakingly beautiful Eskimo Nebula, also referred to as the clown face Nebula.

The nebula is composed of an intricate structure of shells and streamers of gas which are surround a dying, Sun-like star over 5000 light-years away from Earth.The disc of material is embellished with a ring of comet-shaped objects, their tails streaming away from the central dying star.

The planetary nebula began forming about 10 000 years ago, when the central star began to expel an intense, high-speed 'wind' of material out into space.

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