{"id":886566,"date":"2026-09-07T09:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/886566\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T09:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:32:11","slug":"apod-2026-september-7-the-pelican-nebula-in-gas-dust-and-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/886566\/","title":{"rendered":"APOD: 2026 September 7 &#8211; The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p-md margin-0 media-detail-hero__description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExplanation: The Pelican Nebula is slowly being transformed. IC 5070 (an official designation) is divided from the larger\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2000-may-01-the-north-america-nebula\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North America Nebula<\/a>\u00a0by a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2023-january-29-barnard-68-dark-molecular-cloud\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">molecular cloud<\/a>\u00a0filled with dark\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/curator.jsc.nasa.gov\/stardust\/interstellardust.cfm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dust<\/a>. The deep\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/app.astrobin.com\/u\/Mark49?i=6shkl0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">featured picture<\/a> from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8gbIf3sOifs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/user.iiasa.ac.at\/~marek\/fbook\/04\/print\/us.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USA<\/a>\u00a0incorporates 25 hours of exposure and brings out great details of this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2017-november-14-the-pleiades-deep-and-dusty\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filamentary dust<\/a>. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/white-pelican-on-brown-sand-near-body-of-water-during-daytime-hLauNzLijs8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pelican<\/a>\u00a0Nebula receives much study because it is a particularly active mix of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/universe\/stars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">star<\/a>\u00a0formation and evolving gas clouds. The light from young energetic stars is slowly transforming the cold gas to hot gas, with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2018-february-5-ngc-7635-the-bubble-nebula-expanding\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">advancing boundary<\/a>\u00a0between the two, known as an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2003-october-13-pelican-nebula-ionization-front\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ionization front<\/a>, visible in bright orange on the upper right. Particularly dense\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/an-orange-and-white-octopus-on-a-black-background-nG2Hr2QwtP4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tentacles<\/a>\u00a0of cold gas remain. Millions of years from now, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_YEyzvtMx3s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pelican<\/a>\u00a0Nebula, bounded by dark nebula\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.astrobin.com\/co5g86\/B\/?nc=group&amp;nce=144\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LDN 935<\/a>, might no longer be known as the Pelican, as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/1980ApJ...239..121B\/abstract\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">balance and placement of stars and gas<\/a>\u00a0will surely leave something that appears\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/a-cat-wearing-glasses-and-a-jacket-on-a-rug-nzfEUQrZZGc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">completely different<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>APOD&#8217;s main site is <a href=\"https:\/\/asterisk.apod.com\/viewtopic.php?t=45023\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">moving<\/a>: From <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">apod.nasa.gov<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/apod\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">science.nasa.gov\/apod<\/a><br \/>Tomorrow&#8217;s picture:\u00a0geometric Saturn\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Explanation: The Pelican Nebula is slowly being transformed. IC 5070 (an official designation) is divided from the larger\u00a0North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[292290,49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-886566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-apod","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}