The North America Nebula & Pelican Nebula (Prabhakaran)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 50 alf Cyg · 55 Cyg · 56 Cyg · 57 Cyg · 58 nu. Cyg · 59 f01 Cyg · 60 Cyg · 62 ksi Cyg · 63 f02 Cyg · B349 · B350 · B351 · B352 · B353 · B355 · B356 · B358 · Deneb · IC 5068 · IC 5070 · IC 5076 · NGC 6991 · NGC 6996 · NGC 6997 · NGC 7000 · NGC 7027 · NGC 7039 · North America Nebula · PK084+01.1 · PK084+02.1 · And 15 more.

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The North America Nebula & Pelican Nebula

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The North America Nebula & Pelican Nebula

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The North America Nebula is an H II region associated with the Pelican Nebula in the constellation Cygnus. These combine to create the distinctive shapes, which resemble the Southeastern coastline of the USA, and Gulf of Mexico; and Pelican – hence the names. The Pelican Nebula is located nearby first magnitude star Deneb, and is divided from its more prominent neighbor, the North America Nebula, by a molecular cloud filled with dark dust. 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. 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.

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RA (center)	20h55m58s.42
RA (top/left)	20h39m00s.95
RA (top/right)	20h41m29s.82
RA (bottom/right)	21h10m54s.93
RA (bottom/left)	21h12m24s.81

Dec (center)	+43°52′29″.4
Dec (top/left)	+47°33′05″.4
Dec (top/right)	+39°59′47″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	+40°03′39″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	+47°37′25″.2

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