The Cocoon Nebula and Messier 39 in the rich field of Cygnus.
Several types of deep-sky objects are represented here: an emission nebula, dark nebulas and star clusters, in this rich field in Cygnus. The field frames the bright and magenta Cocoon Nebula (at lower left), aka IC 5146, at the end of the dark nebula Barnard 168, aka The Dark Cigar, which itself is southeast of the bright but sparse star cluster Messier 39 at upper right. The field is wrapped in faint red emission nebulosity. A dimmer smaller star cluster, Platais 1, sits above M39.
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