Gorgeous. I always have to look these up, so I’ll copy paste what I read in case there are others who also wonder about the beautiful nebulae we here on here -
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a dense, winding pillar of interstellar gas and dust located 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus. It acts as a massive stellar nursery, where intense radiation from hot nearby stars compresses the gas to trigger the birth of new stars.
Key Facts and Location Catalog names: Also known as IC 1396A or van den Bergh 142 (vdB 142).
Distance: About 2,400 light-years from Earth.
Size: The dark trunk structure itself is roughly 20 light-years long, sitting inside a much larger emission region called IC 1396.
Constellation: Cepheus, in the northern night sky.
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