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Keywords: Pelican Nebula, North America Nebula
![Туманности: Северная Америка и Пеликан](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/08/16/0001215244/northamerica_outters.preview.jpg)
16.08.2006
Here are some familiar shapes in unfamiliar locations. This emission nebula on the left is famous partly because it resembles Earth's continent of North America. To the right of the North America Nebula, cataloged as NGC 7000, is a less luminous nebula that resembles a pelican dubbed the Pelican Nebula.
![IC 5067: часть Пеликана](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/10/19/0001223940/ic5070_fernandez800.preview.jpg)
19.10.2007
(xxxedit and linkxxx) The prominent ridge of emission featured in this dramatic skyscape is cataloged as IC 5067. Part of a larger emission nebula with a distinctive shape, popularly called The Pelican Nebula, the ridge spans about 10 light-years following the curve of the cosmic pelican's head and neck.
![Пеликан в Лебеде](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/30/0001218221/PelicanNebula1_shahar_f720.preview.jpg)
30.11.2006
The Pelican Nebula lies about 2,000 light-years away in the high flying constellation Cygnus, the Swan. Also known as IC 5070, this cosmic pelican is appropriately found just off the "east coast" of the North America Nebula (NGC 7000), another surprisingly familiar looking emission nebula in Cygnus.
![Ионизационный фронт туманности Пеликан](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/10/13/0001194017/pelican_noao.preview.jpg)
13.10.2003
What's happening to the Pelican Nebula? The light from young energetic stars is slowly transforming the Pelican's cold gas to hot gas, with the advancing boundary between the two known as an ionization front.
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