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Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня IC 5067: часть Пеликана http://www.variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1223938/eng |
Credit & Copyright: Antonio Fernandez
Explanation:
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The prominent ridge of emission featured in
this dramatic skyscape
is cataloged as IC 5067.
Part of a larger emission nebula with a distinctive shape,
popularly called
The Pelican Nebula, the ridge spans about
10 light-years following the
curve of the cosmic pelican's head and neck.
This false color
view also translates narrow band emission lines
from atoms in the nebula to a
color palate made popular in
Hubble Space Telescope images of star forming regions.
Fantastic dark shapes inhabiting the 1/2 degree wide field,
are clouds of cool gas and dust sculpted by the winds and radiation
from hot, massive stars.
Close-ups
of some of the sculpted clouds show clear signs of newly
forming stars.
The Pelican Nebula, itself cataloged as IC 5070, is about
2,000 light-years away.
To find
the larger region, look northeast of bright
star Deneb in the
high flying constellation Cygnus.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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