Elephant Trunk Nebula
The Elephant Trunk Nebula is a portion of interstellar gas and dust in the IC1396 ionized gas region, located in the constellation Cepheus, about 2,400 light-years from Earth.The Elephant Trunk Nebula is now considered to be the site of star formation, which contains very young (less than 100,000 years old) stars found in infrared images…