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Friday, 29 July 2011

IC5146 Cocoon Nebula

IC5146 Cocoon Nebula by lacomj
IC5146 Cocoon Nebula, a photo by lacomj on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Nebula with surrounding dust (dark nebulosity) about 4000 light years away, in the constallation Cygnus. The central illuminating star is very young...only about 100,000 years old. Humans were on Earth when this star was born

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