The Cygnus Wall: A Cosmic Shoreline of Creation
In the northern constellation of Cygnus the Swan, lies one of the sky’s most striking features – the North America Nebula (NGC 7000). Within this nebula, the region astronomers call the Cygnus Wall blazes like a cosmic shoreline. Its sculpted edge resembling (with some imagination) the rugged coastline of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. But unlike any…