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> Detail of the Pelican nebula (IC 5067-5070) in constellation Cygnus

Detail of the Pelican nebula (IC 5067-5070) in constellation Cygnus

author: Jim Misti/Novapix

reference: a-nec50-70001

Image Size 300 DPI: 22 * 33 cm

Intense radiation from several massive stars is eroding the surrounding molecular cloud. In regions shadowed by dense clumps of gas and dust, parts of the cold molecular cloud survive to produce the long pillars of dusty material. Star formation continues in the dusty and opaque interior of the cloud. The Pelican-North American nebula complex is located a few degrees east of the bright star Deneb in the constellation Cygnus the Swan, about 1,800 light-years distant from Earth.

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2004 - ASTRONOMY - CYGNUS - EMISSION NEBULA - IC 5067 - IC 5070 - NEBULA - PELICAN - STAR - STAR FORMATION - YOUNG STAR -