How are you all doing? 😊
My favorite astronomer, William Herschel, discovered this beauty in 1787. I kind of like its name, the Eskimo Nebula, & it got that name due to the resemblance of it being a head surrounded by the hood of a parka.
The nebula is actually slightly mysterious as well; astronomers are really not sure about the gas clouds here. They are very complex, & the light-year long orange filaments are quite unusual.
Credit: NASA
by Cameron / @astrcam
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