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	Fox Fur Nebula.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/292465f2-b65b-4e29-9a90-950d0f275561/DC25DBB9-9D1A-42A1-9518-BBF7CF08A15C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0804/foxfur_cfht.jpg" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0804/foxfur_cfht.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0804/foxfur_cfht.jpg"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/img/9D78F76B-9C70-4388-ABD1-19B4BD8CF646" alt="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0804/foxfur_cfht.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.coolscifi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=190433" href="http://www.coolscifi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=190433" style="font-size: 11px;">www.coolscifi.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.coolscifi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=190433"><DIV>
 <B> Explanation: </B> This interstellar beast is formed of cosmic <A target="_blank" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030706.html">dust</A> and gas interacting with the energetic light and winds from hot young stars. The shape, visual texture, and color, combine to give the region the popular name <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Fur_Nebula">Fox Fur Nebula</A>. The characteristic blue glow on the left is dust reflecting light from the bright star <A target="_blank" href="http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/15mon.html">S Mon</A>, just beyond the left edge of <A target="_blank" href="http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/HawaiianStarlight/ AIOM/English/CFHT-Coelum-AIOM-Jan2008.html">the image</A>. Mottled pink and <A target="_blank" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030512.html">brown areas</A> are a combination of the cosmic dust and reddish emission from <A target="_blank" href="http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wposion.html">ionized</A> <A target="_blank" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010113.html">hydrogen</A> gas. <A target="_blank" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010424.html">S Mon</A> is part of a young <A target="_blank" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/open_clusters.html">open cluster</A> of stars, <A target="_blank" href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ nph-bib_query?bibcode=2002AAS...200.7002L">NGC 2264</A>, located about 2,500 <A target="_blank" href="http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/ 980211a.html">light years</A> away toward the <A target="_blank" href="http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/ extra/constellations.html">constellation</A> of <A target="_blank" href="http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/mon/index.html">Monoceros</A>, just north of the <A target="_blank" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040529.html">Cone Nebula</A>. </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DC25DBB9-9D1A-42A1-9518-BBF7CF08A15C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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