Among them are the red supergiant star Mu Cephei; the double stars Struve 2816 and Struve 2819; the dark nebula van den Bergh 142, known as the Elephant Trunk Nebula; dark nebula Barnard 161 (just ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...