This small object is located only 1300 light years away in the constellation of Aquila at a declination of +11 degrees. It is a Young Stellar Object (YSO) that spans 1 arc-minute in our apparent view, which corresponds to a 0.5 light year diameter.
A YSO is a star in its early stage of evolution. This early stage includes objects in both the first (protostar) stage and the second (pre-main sequence) stage. Most stars spend only a small fraction of their lives in this early YSO stage. These YSOs are associated with many interesting phenomena, including cometary nebulae, bipolar jet outflows, Herbig–Haro objects, and protoplanetary disks. I love how all of these early stars are obscured by dust, which creates beautiful reflection nebulae patterns that can change quickly through the years. My poster of YSOs is
here.
The surrounding dark nebulae complex is LDN 673, as better seen in my wider FOV of this region
here where V1352 Aql is seen as the tiny object at upper right.
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