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the elephant trunk nebula IC 1396 [View all]
took me a little while to process this until i was happy with it
7 hours of exposure in my backyard
the neubla is a star forming region 2400 light years away. Its lit by the str in teh center which is actually a triple star system of 3 very massive stars each 10-30x as massive as the sun
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