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Loading contentA tall pillar of cold molecular gas and dust, about seven light-years long, sculpted by the radiation and winds of hot young stars in the NGC 2264 star-forming region in Monoceros. The Cone lies at the southern end of the same complex as the Christmas Tree Cluster, roughly 2,700 light-years away, and is a textbook example of a star-forming pillar.
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