Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  The star 16 Cep  ·  The star 24 Cep
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The Shark Nebula : LDN 1235, Prabhakaran
The Shark Nebula : LDN 1235
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The Shark Nebula : LDN 1235

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The Shark Nebula : LDN 1235, Prabhakaran
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The Shark Nebula : LDN 1235

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Sporting an uncanny resemblance to a shark, LDN 1235 is part of a large molecular cloud in the constellation Cepheus. Dark dust like that featured here is somewhat like cigarette smoke and is created in the cool atmospheres of giant stars. After being expelled with gas and gravitationally recondensing, massive stars may carve intricate structures into their birth cloud using their high energy light and fast stellar winds as sculpting tools. The heat they generate evaporates the murky molecular cloud as well as causing ambient hydrogen gas to disperse and glow red. Including smaller dust nebulae such as Lynds Dark Nebula 1235 and Van den Bergh 149 & 150, the Shark nebula spans about 15 light-years and lies about 650 lightyears away.

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The Shark Nebula : LDN 1235, Prabhakaran

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Dark Nebula