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Pillars of NGC 7822, Larry S
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Pillars of NGC 7822

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Pillars of NGC 7822

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NGC 7822 (also designated Sharpless 171, SH 2-171) is a young irregular emission nebula and star forming region located some 3,300 light-years away in constellation Cepheus. It includes the young star cluster Berkeley 59. A supernova remnant associated with NGC 7822, indicates that a massive star has already exploded.

Berkeley 59 includes one of the hottest stars discovered in the vicinity of our Sun, namely BD+66 1673, which is an eclipsing binary system consisting of a very bright star that exhibits a surface temperature of nearly 45000 K and a luminosity ~100000 times that of the Sun.

Cosmic pillars of cold molecular gas and clouds of dark dust – often called elephant trunks – lie within NGC 7822.

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Pillars of NGC 7822, Larry S

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