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Credit & Copyright: Dheera Venkatraman
Explanation:
The bird is bigger than the peak.
Nicknamed for its avian shape, the
Seagull Nebula is an
emission nebula on the night sky that is
vast,
spanning an angle over five times the diameter of the
full moon and over 200
light years.
The head of the nebula is catalogued as
IC 2177, and the star cluster under its right
wing is catalogued as NGC 2343.
Consisting of mostly red-glowing
hydrogen gas, the
Seagull Nebula
incorporates some dust lanes and is forming
stars.
The peak over which this Seagull
seems to soar occurs at
Pinnacles National Park in
California,
USA.
The featured image is a composite of
long exposure images of the background sky
and short exposure images of the foreground,
all taken consecutively with the same camera and from the same location.
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