APOD: 2020 March 10 - Wide Field: Fox Fur, Unicorn, and Christmas Tree

Good Tuesday morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price!!! I must be out to lunch today as I cannot see what you described... To me, I see snow capped mountains with dry arid plains to the lower right... A land in turmoil! It sometimes amazes me how astronomers delineated what they saw through their telescopes over time...yet all very, very interesting. To further elucidate this Nebula I found a great short adjunct video that is interesting... https://youtu.be/tyKllPhRu3U
Enjoy!





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Good Tuesday morning, my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price and thank you for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for March 10, 2020 entitled "Wide Field: Fox Fur, Unicorn, and Christmas Tree."
Image: Wide Field - Fox Fur, Unicorn, and Christmas Tree - Image Credit & Copyright - Greg Gurdak

Amazing image which is a faint glimmer in comparison with the majesty of the creator God who brings us so much beauty :-)

"Explanation: What do the following things have in common: a cone, the fur of a fox, and a Christmas tree? Answer: they all occur in the constellation of the unicorn (Monoceros). Pictured as a star forming region and cataloged as NGC 2264, the complex jumble of cosmic gas and dust is about 2,700 light-years distant and mixes reddish emission nebulae excited by energetic light from newborn stars with dark interstellar dust clouds. Where the otherwise obscuring dust clouds lie close to the hot, young stars they also reflect starlight, forming blue reflection nebulae. The featured wide-field image spans over three times the diameter of a full moon, covering over 100 light-years at the distance of NGC 2264. Its cast of cosmic characters includes the Fox Fur Nebula, whose convoluted pelt lies just to the lower right of the image center, bright variable star S Mon visible just above the Fox Fur, and the Cone Nebula just to the left. Given their distribution, the stars of NGC 2264 are also known as the Christmas Tree star cluster."
Thank you, my friends TSgt Joe C. and Sgt (Join to see) for mentioning me."

Sufjan Stevens, "Christmas Unicorn" [Track 9/9, Vol. 10]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW1AgX-Fv3M


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Terrific APOD today!

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