Posted on 08/27/2022 2:31:37 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Inside the Cocoon Nebula is a newly developing cluster of stars. Cataloged as IC 5146, the beautiful nebula is nearly 15 light-years wide. Climbing high in northern summer night skies, it's located some 4,000 light years away toward the constellation Cygnus the Swan. Like other star forming regions, it stands out in red, glowing, hydrogen gas excited by young, hot stars, and dust-reflected starlight at the edge of an otherwise invisible molecular cloud. In fact, the bright star found near the center of this nebula is likely only a few hundred thousand years old, powering the nebular glow as it clears out a cavity in the molecular cloud's star forming dust and gas. A 29 hour long integration with a small telescope from Ayr, Ontario, Canada resulted in this exceptionally deep color view tracing tantalizing features within and surrounding the dusty stellar nursery.
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No she came from Raquels jiji
You can see the head in this shot, and the body which is obscured by ping gas curls around to the left.
Combines attributes of a ping dragon (blows poison bubbles, tells jokes, consumes anyone who doesn't laugh) with that of a gas spore monster (causes hallucinations, transmits memories)
It is a dangerous universe we live in.
Well I see either a fox or a snaky moray eel type thing. I am sure it looks different through a telescope or in a black and white picture one of which is what they looked at or through when the astronomers named it!
Perhaps when it hatches it will become another recognizable butterfly nebula like this!
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That doesn’t look anything like a raccoon.
It looks like a very rare cheeseburger patty.
It looks like the head of a chicken.
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