Credit & Copyright: Fabian Neyer
Explanation:
In this crowded
starfield covering over 2 degrees within the high flying constellation
Cygnus,
the eye is drawn to the Cocoon Nebula.
A compact star forming region,
the cosmic Cocoon
punctuates a long trail of obscuring interstellar dust clouds.
Cataloged as IC 5146, the
nebula is nearly 15 light-years wide, located
some 4,000 light years away.
Like other star forming regions, it stands out
in red, glowing, hydrogen gas
excited by the young, hot stars
and blue, dust-reflected starlight
at the edge of an otherwise invisible
molecular cloud.
In fact, the bright star near the center of this nebula is likely
only a few hundred thousand years old, powering the nebular glow as it
clears out
a cavity in the molecular
cloud's star forming dust and gas.
But the long dusty filaments that appear dark in this visible
light image are themselves hiding stars in the process of formation,
seen at infrared wavelengths.
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