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Monsters of IC 1396 (25 Apr 2011)
In this blog post I will be presenting you with information of IC 1396 which reminds me of a screaming baby. It is known to some as the Elephant's Trunk Nebula. Some of the glowing gas and dust clouds of this star formation region appear to take on several forms but in my opinion it looks very human-like The entire nebula might even look like a face of a monster. The only real monster here, however, is a bright young star too far from Earth to be dangerous. Energetic light from this star is eating away the dust of the dark cometary globule at the top right the image. Jets and winds of particles emitted from this star are also pushing away ambient gas and dust. Nearly 3,000 light-years distant, the IC 1396 complex is relatively faint and covers a region on the sky with an apparent width of more than 10 full moons.
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