Today's Amateur Astronomy Photo of the Day:

NGC 7000, the North America Nebula, is an emission nebula in Cygnus whose continent-like outline comes from bright gas set against dark, obscuring dust lanes. It shares a larger star-forming complex with the nearby Pelican Nebula (IC 5070), where bright ionization fronts mark the interaction of energetic starlight with surrounding gas. Mark Germani’s narrowband image combines hydrogen-alpha, oxygen, and sulfur data with UV/IR-cut-filter exposures for the stars, revealing the region’s glowing gas and intricate dust.