The Elephant's Trunk Nebula



IC-1396 The Elephant's Trunk Nebula (The Misty Clove Cluster)

The very bright star in the upper right is also known as Herschel's Garnet Star, which is one of the largest known stars with a radius of 1,000 times that of the Sun. If the Sun were that size, it would engulf the planet Mars, and just barely engulf Jupiter.

See if you can see why they call it the Elephant's Trunk Nebula (it took me a while and is kind of small in this field of view).

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