Wizard Nebula

Thursday, Nov 6, 2025

Wizard Nebula

By Domenico De Simone

This emission Nebula NGC7380, visible in this spectacular image together with a myriad of stars, lies along the plane of the Milky Way and is located about 11,500 light years away from us, in the Constellation of Cefeo. The young stellar group born within the Nebula has an age of only 4 million years. In the image you can see interesting formations and dusty structures that stretch for a few light years, (they seem to have drawn a Wizard with the hat) shaped by the radiation and by the stellar winds of neonated stars.

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