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Dark Doodad Nebula near NGC 4372
NGC 4372 - Dark Doodad
NGC 4372 - Dark Doodad
La prima immagine 3D di una nube molecolare
La prima immagine 3D di una nube molecolare
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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 2015 September 10
NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
The delightful Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies, a tantalizing target for binoculars in the constellation Musca, The Fly. The dusty cosmic cloud is seen against rich starfields just south of the prominent Coalsack Nebula and the Southern Cross. Stretching for about 3 degrees across this scene the Dark Doodad is punctuated at its southern tip (lower left) by globular star cluster NGC 4372. Of course NGC 4372 roams the halo of our Milky Way Galaxy, a background object some 20,000 light-years away and only by chance along our line-of-sight to the Dark Doodad. The Dark Doodad's well defined silhouette belongs to the Musca molecular cloud, but its better known alliterative moniker was first coined by astro-imager and writer Dennis di Cicco in 1986 while observing Comet Halley from the Australian outback. The Dark Doodad is around 700 light-years distant and over 30 light-years long.
Dark Doodad nebula, NGC 4372
This is called the Dark Doodad Nebula. I shit you not.