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Credit & Copyright: Tapio Lahtinen
Explanation:
The silhouette of an intriguing
dark nebula
inhabits this cosmic scene.
Lynds' Dark Nebula
(LDN) 1622 appears against a faint
background of glowing hydrogen gas only easily seen in long telescopic
exposures of the region.
LDN 1622 lies near the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy,
close on the sky to
Barnard's
Loop,
a large cloud surrounding the rich
complex of emission nebulae found
in the Belt and Sword
of Orion.
But the obscuring dust of LDN 1622 is thought to be much closer
than Orion's more famous nebulae, perhaps only 500 light-years away.
At that distance, this 1 degree wide field of view
would span less than 10 light-years.
Its foreboding appearance lends this dark expanse a popular name,
the Boogeyman Nebula.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
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Publications with keywords: dark nebula - dust - Orion
Publications with words: dark nebula - dust - Orion
See also:
- APOD: 2024 January 31 Á Camera Orion Rising
- APOD: 2024 January 29 Á The Pleiades: Seven Dusty Sisters
- APOD: 2024 January 16 Á The Orion You Can Almost See
- APOD: 2023 November 27 Á LBN 86: The Eagle Ray Nebula
- APOD: 2023 November 20 Á The Horsehead Nebula
- NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula
- The Dark Seahorse in Cepheus