My colorful photo shows the Angel Nebula in the constellation Monoceros. A nebula complex that combines a mixture of the most beautiful types of nebulae. Bluish nebulae that reflect the light of nearby hot stars. Hydrogen clouds that are excited by UV light from nearby stars and thus glow reddish. Dark absorption nebulae that can only be seen as silhouettes because they block the light behind them. All these nebulae lie at the edge of a huge molecular cloud that is estimated to be only about 2,700 light-years away from us.
Angel Nebula NGC 2170