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2. Pelican Products - Wikipedia

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   Pelican Products is an American multinational company that designs and manufactures portable lighting systems, temperature controlled packaging and protective cases.Their products are used in many industries including military, law enforcement, fire safety, and consumer entertainment. [1]

3. Pelican Nebula - Wikipedia

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   Pelican Nebula (IC5070) taken from Leeds UK by amateur astro-photographer urmymuse. The Pelican Nebula (also known as IC 5070 [1]) is an H II region associated with the North America Nebula in the constellation Cygnus. The gaseous contortions of this emission nebula bear a resemblance to a pelican, giving rise to its name. [1]

4. North America Nebula - Wikipedia

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   The portion of the nebula resembling Mexico and Central America is known as the Cygnus Wall. This region exhibits the most concentrated star formation. [9] At optical wavelengths, the North America Nebula and the Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) appear distinct as they are separated by the silhouette of the dark band of interstellar dust L935. The dark ...

5. Astronomy Picture of the Day - Wikipedia

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   When the APOD website was created, it received a total of 14 page views on its first day. As of 2012, the APOD website has received over a billion image views throughout its lifetime. [5] APOD is also translated into 21 languages daily. [6] APOD was presented at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in 1996. [7]

6. Elephant's Trunk Nebula - Wikipedia

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   The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is now thought to be a site of star formation, containing several very young (less than 100,000 yr) stars that were discovered in infrared images in 2003. Two older (but still young, a couple of million years, by the standards of stars , which live for billions of years) stars are present in a small, circular cavity ...

7. Veil Nebula - Wikipedia

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   The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus. [4]It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop, [5] a supernova remnant, many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers.