Other than the fact that it's near to the North American Nebula, I didn't know much about this area.
I did find this bit pretty entertaining
"The Pelican is much studied because it has a particularly active mix of
star formation and evolving gas clouds. The light from young energetic stars is slowly transforming cold gas to hot and causing an
ionization front gradually to advance outward. Particularly dense filaments of cold gas are seen to still remain, and among these are found two jets emitted from the
Herbig–Haro object 555.
[1] Millions of years from now this nebula might no longer be known as the Pelican, as the balance and placement of stars and gas will leave something that appears completely different."
If someone could do a timelapse of the next few million years on this area, that'd definitely be IOTD worthy
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