Monkey Head Nebula

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The Monkey Head Nebula is an emission nebula in the constellation Orion. It's about 6,400 light years from Earth.

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Monkey Head Nebula

The nebula is an H II region, a large cloud of ionised gas in which new stars are being formed. The low-density cloud has intense star formation.