One of the largest emission nebulae in the far northern sky can be found in IC 1396, a bright glow in Cepheus that contains several complex objects. Among them are the red supergiant star Mu ...

Monday, July 18, 2022. Credit: NASA Sign up for enews: https://buff.ly/3PFbaaR IC 1396 Elephant Trunk Nebula in Cepheus The Elephant Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within ...

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Recently, over 100 young stars have been discovered forming in the nebula. To get a better idea of why this is more usually called the Elephant’s Trunk, check out this photo of the whole nebula ...

This beauty is IC 13961 (more commonly known as the Elephant's Trunk Nebula); a region that lies about 2,400 light-years from Earth in the quaint constellation of Cepheus. Also within the vicinity ...

ASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team . NASA’s Wide-field Survey Explorer (WISE) took this image of the Elephant’s Trunk nebula, showing clouds of dust and gas pushed and eroded by a massive star.

Editor's Note: This story was updated on Thursday, Sept. 5 at 12:20 p.m. E.T. Ursa Major, the Tadpole Galaxy, the Crab Nebula — when it comes to naming objects in space, it sometimes seems like ...

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