Friday, October 26, 2007

2.1: IC 5067 in the Pelican Nebula

The picture is of the emission IC 5067 or the Pelican Nebula. It is an Emission Nebula and is about 2,000 light-years away. If you are trying to find it in the sky, it is NE of Denep in the constellation Cygnus. In the clouds of the nebula, you can see newly forming stars. There are also dark areas in the nebula; these are clouds of cool gas that are formed from the wind and radiation from stars. It is a false color picture converting the emission lines of the atoms to a color palette.

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