Another Go at the Pelican Nebula
The Pelican Nebula frankly isn’t a very attractive object as a whole, but if you crop it down to its heart, there’s a lot of interesting stuff going on. Look for little puffs in the image, or areas with spikes coming out of them. Those are Herbig-Haro objects – stars that are still in the process of forming from their planetary discs, shooting out jets of gas from their spinning core.
How cool is that? You can actually see stars being born from your backyard!
This image adds two more nights’ worth of data to my earlier image from 2022, plus some newer processing software.
