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This week's picture features the Wizard Nebula! Only 8000 light years away, this nebula is huge star forming region, NGC 7380 to be specific, and is really just a tower of super heated and super irradiated gasses and the actual star forming region is only 100 light years across. The wizard nebula lies in the constellation Cepheus and some of the stars forming in this nebula have the chance to out live our own sun! so in a few billion years, our ancestors, if still living, will be able to view the star clusters that this nebula will leave behind.
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