Elephant Trunk Nebula

Another capture of the this nebula. It is over 20 light years long and runs through IC1396, a young star cluster located in a cloud of glowing, ionized gas in the Cepheus constellation. The Elephant's Trunk is composed of cool interstellar dust and gas, which blocks the light on its way to Earth and leaves behind a long, thin silhouette that gives the nebula its name. The IC 1396 star cluster is located about 3,000 light years away.