LDN 1622 - The Boogeyman Nebula

A dark, ghostly shape drifts against a glowing red backdrop — the Boogeyman Nebula! Faint trails of dust extend behind it, reaching toward the bright arc of Barnard’s Loop in Orion.

On the bottom left, you see a pair of interacting galaxies similar to the Siamese twins, UGCA 116, 312 million light years away from us!

In the frame are also a lot of Herbig - Haro objects. They are small, bright patches of nebulosity associated with newly forming stars. They form when jets of ionized gas ejected by young stars collide with surrounding interstellar material at high speeds (typically several hundred kilometers per second). These shock waves heat the gas and make it glow, producing the characteristic bright and often filamentary structures seen in HH objects.

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