#cone nebula

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Cone Nebula from Hubble

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The Cone Nebula (top) and the Christmas Tree Cluster (center) // Yanick Brassard

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NGC 2264 Aka 'Christmas Tree Cluster'

Courtesy: NASA

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Cone Nebula

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A Mysterious Cone Nebula - March 1st, 1996.

"Sometimes the simplest shapes are the hardest to explain. For example, the origin of the mysterious cone-shaped region located just below the center of the above picture remains a mystery. The dark region clearly contains much dust, which blocks light from the��emission nebula and open cluster NGC 2264 behind it. One hypothesis holds that the cone is formed by wind particles from an energetic source blowing past the Bok globule at the head of the cone."

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Burnhams Celestial Handbook (1978)

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Wide-Field Cone

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NGC 2264: The Cone Nebula

Stars are forming in the gigantic dust pillar called the Cone Nebula. Cones, pillars, and majestic flowing shapes abound in stellar nurseries where clouds of gas and dust are sculpted by energetic winds from newborn stars. The Cone Nebula, a well-known example, lies within the bright galactic star-forming region NGC 2264. The featured image of the Cone was captured recently combining 24-hours of exposure with a half-meter telescope at the El Sauce Observatory in Chile. Located about 2,500 light-years away toward the constellation of the Unicorn (Monoceros), the Cone Nebula's conical pillar extends about 7 light-years. The massive star NGC 2264 IRS, is the likely source of the wind sculpting the Cone Nebula and lies off the top of the image. The Cone Nebula's reddish veil is produced by glowing hydrogen gas.

Image Credit & Copyright: Matthew Dieterich

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black dust

“Seen with the “Big Eye” cone nebula resembles a comet leaving wake of black dust.”

September 1950

Quote taken from original text included with the image in the magazine

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Christmas Tree Cluster

A fascinating open star cluster with associated bright and dark nebulae.

… and the Cone Nebula NGC 2264 Complex in Monoceros Image exposure: 120 MinutesImage Size: 2.11 º x 1.4ºImage date:2024-03-05 The NGC 2264 complex is a huge nebula of hydrogen which forms a tenuous star-forming gas cloud approximately 25 light years across and some 2,300 light years distant. It also contains a dark nebula and an association of over a hundred hot young stars. Most of the…

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The Cone Nebula © Matt Dieterich

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NGC 2264: Four Objects in One! // Kurt Hauser

Included in this designation are the Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster. Not included in this designation but in the same area are the Fox Fur Nebula and the Snowflake Cluster.

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Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula (NGC 2264)

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It’s summertime, so let’s enjoy 🍦! The Cone Nebula, shown in this Hubble Space Telescope photo, could pack a lot of ice cream into its 2.5 light-year-long expanse. It resides in a turbulent star-forming region. Within the dark pillar, a new generation of stars is being born. Ultraviolet light from nearby, massive stars heats the edges of the dark cloud, releasing gas into the surrounding space to create the glowing, red tendrils seen throughout the image. Credit: NASA, ESA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (UCSC/LO), M.Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), and the ACS Science Team. ALT TEXT: A wide, dark pillar surrounded by wispy red tendrils extends from lower left to upper right across most of the frame. The cone-shaped pillar narrows gradually to a smooth, rounded top. Several bright stars are seen at the top of the pillar, while a few more stars are in the background to either side in the top third of the image. A shorter pillar at lower right joins into the larger one.

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NGC 2264, Cone Nebula