APOD: 2021 August 27 - Elephant s Trunk and Caravan

Thank you my friend and brother-in-Christ Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Friday, August 27, 2021 entitled "Elephant's Trunk and Caravan."

Image: Elephant's Trunk and Caravan - Image Credit & Copyright - Robert Eder

APOD Background
"Explanation: Like an illustration in a galactic Just So Story, the Elephant's Trunk Nebula winds through the emission nebula and young star cluster complex IC 1396, in the high and far off constellation of Cepheus. Also known as vdB 142, seen on the left the cosmic elephant's trunk is over 20 light-years long. Removed by digital processing, no visible stars are in this detailed telescopic close-up view highlighting the bright swept-back ridges that outline pockets of cool interstellar dust and gas. But the dark, tendril-shaped clouds contain the raw material for star formation and hide protostars within. Nearly 3,000 light-years distant, the relatively faint IC 1396 complex covers a large region on the sky, spanning over 5 degrees. This starless rendition spans a 1 degree wide field of view though, about the angular size of 2 full moons. Of course the dark shapes below and right, marching toward the winding Elephant's Trunk, are known to some as The Caravan."

In a play on words on Elephant
Sunlight-Elephant Mountain(1969)-The Youngbloods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1AZni-V3yw


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Looks more like a gunslinger coming out of a dust cloud Maj William W. 'Bill' Price , have a great RED Friday sir.

Beautiful picture but I don't get the elephant trunk.