Stars and nebulae highly commended: The Misty Elephant’s Trunk by Min Xie (USA). The photographer imaged IC 1396, known as the Elephant’s Trunk, in the Hubble palette from my light-polluted backyard in Coppell, Texas. This image presents the Elephant’s Trunk surrounded by the emission clouds with a misty feeling and an emphasised blue doubly-ionised oxygen area as the background. It gives the feeling of the trunk emerging from the distance. (Photo by Min Xie/2020 Astronomy Photographer of the Year)
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