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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                 2025 September 19   
      
                               The NGC 6914 Complex   
                       Image Credit & Copyright: Tommy Lease   
      
      Explanation: A study in contrasts, this colorful cosmic skyscape   
      features stars, dust, and glowing gas in the vicinity of NGC 6914. The   
      interstellar complex of nebulae lies some 6,000 light-years away,   
      toward the high-flying northern constellation Cygnus and the plane of   
      our Milky Way Galaxy. Obscuring interstellar dust clouds appear in   
      silhouette while reddish hydrogen emission nebulae, along with the   
      dusty blue reflection nebulae, fill the cosmic canvas. Ultraviolet   
      radiation from the massive, hot, young stars of the extensive Cygnus   
      OB2 association ionize the region's atomic hydrogen gas, producing the   
      characteristic red glow as protons and electrons recombine. Embedded   
      Cygnus OB2 stars also provide the blue starlight strongly reflected by   
      the dust clouds. The over one degree wide telescopic field of view   
      spans about 100 light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 6914.   
      
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