Elephant Trunk Nebula

Resource added September, 2023

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This is the Elephant Trunk Nebula. It is an area of dust illuminated by a nearby star in the Constellation Cetus ("the Whale") and is mostly red. This area is approx. 2400 light years away.

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created on
September 14th, 2023
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jpg
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2 MB
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Marco Ciocca
publisher
Eastern Kentucky University
publisher place
Richmond, KY
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License
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Copyright © 2023 by Marco Ciocca. EKU Observatory Images is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.