The Cocoon Nebula overlaps the eastern edge of Barnard 168 (B168), one of the northern sky’s finest dark nebulae. From a dark site, sharp-eyed observers can pick up this murky lane without ...

What it shows is the famed Cocoon Nebula, also called IC 5146.What you’re seeing is actually a cluster of young stars called Collinder 470, which is roughly 2,500 light-years away.

The Cocoon Nebula is both a reflection nebula and an emission nebula, Hancock wrote in an email to Space.com, meaning it reflects the light of nearby stars and shines with its own light.

This spectacular image shows the Cocoon Nebula, IC5146, in Cygnus. The blue reflection nebula below the Cocoon is Van den Bergh 147. Also present in the picture is the Dark Nebula Barnard -168 ...

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Astronomers released a new image of the Orion Nebula on Monday from the James Webb Space Telescope.; Webb's infrared cameras caught star-forming clouds and a cocoon of gas 1,350 light-years away.

Photo release: A stellar cocoon soon to hatch to a butterfly ... The nebula, CRL 618, is an example of a special type of nebula called a proto-planetary nebula.