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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                 2022 December 12   
      The featured image shows an interstellar gas globule that looks like a   
        monster superposed against a glowing red background. Please see the   
                    explanation for more detailed information.   
      
                           An Unusual Globule in IC 1396   
                     Image Credit & Copyright: Bernard Miller   
      
      Explanation: Is there a monster in IC 1396? Known to some as the   
      Elephant's Trunk Nebula, parts of gas and dust clouds of this star   
      formation region may appear to take on foreboding forms, some nearly   
      human. The only real monster here, however, is a bright young star too   
      far from Earth to hurt us. Energetic light from this star is eating   
      away the dust of the dark cometary globule near the top of the featured   
      image. Jets and winds of particles emitted from this star are also   
      pushing away ambient gas and dust. Nearly 3,000 light-years distant,   
      the relatively faint IC 1396 complex covers a much larger region on the   
      sky than shown here, with an apparent width of more than 10 full moons.   
      
                          Tomorrow's picture: art and sky   
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