Cepheus
Cepheus is a constellation in the northern sky, named after a mythical king of Ethiopia. It contains several notable deep-sky objects, including the emission nebula IC 1396 and the Elephant's Trunk Nebula, and is home to the red supergiant star Mu Cephei.
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APODs including "Cepheus"
Haunting the Cepheus Flare
28/10/2016
Spooky shapes seem to haunt this jeweled expanse, drifting through the night in the royal constellation Cepheus. Of course, the shapes are cosmic dust clouds faintly visible in dimly reflected starlight. Far from your own neighborhood on planet Earth, they lurk along the plane of the Milky Way at the edge of the Cepheus Flare molecular cloud complex some 1,200 light-years away. Over 2 light-years across and brighter than the other ghostly apparitions, vdB 141 or Sh2-136 is also known as the Ghost Nebula, seen at the right of the starry field of view. Within the nebula are the telltale signs of dense cores collapsing in the early stages of star formation.