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Astronomy Picture of the Day - NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod ^
| 30 Mar, 2023
| Tomorrow's picture: tantalizing Titan
Posted on 03/30/2023 11:45:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: The delightful Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies, a tantalizing target for binoculars toward the small constellation Musca, The Fly. The dusty cosmic cloud is seen against rich starfields just south of the Coalsack Nebula and the Southern Cross. Stretching for about 3 degrees across the center of this telephoto field of view, the Dark Doodad is punctuated near its southern tip (upper right) by yellowish 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.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa; scienceissilly
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03/30/2023 11:45:56 AM PDT
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MtnClimber
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posted on
03/30/2023 11:46:30 AM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
I had a dark doodad this morning........................
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posted on
03/30/2023 11:47:42 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
I had a dark doodad this morning........................ And there it is.
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posted on
03/30/2023 11:50:58 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
That will buff right out!
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posted on
03/30/2023 11:55:34 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Red Badger; MtnClimber
I had a 14 inch floating doodad yesterday.
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posted on
03/30/2023 11:56:32 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: MtnClimber; Red Badger
There’s a pinko commie wearing a helmet in the left hand corner.
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posted on
03/30/2023 11:58:00 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
03/30/2023 11:58:18 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: DannyTN
Looks like a Cardinal to me...........The bird, not the football player or Catholic guy............
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posted on
03/30/2023 12:01:47 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: MtnClimber
They’re clearly running out of names.
To: Red Badger
Oh I see that. If the cardinal is looking left.
But the pinko commie is looking right.
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posted on
03/30/2023 12:05:04 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Telepathic Intruder
They’re clearly running out of names. NASA is probably just doing "diversity" hiring these days.
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posted on
03/30/2023 12:05:49 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: DannyTN
You actually measured it, huh?...................🤦♂️🤷♂️
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posted on
03/30/2023 12:05:58 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: MtnClimber
Looks like the top of a cattail plant to me.
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posted on
03/30/2023 12:07:33 PM PDT
by
Stosh
To: Red Badger
The eye is the same for both.
But on the cardinal the nose or beak is at the same level as the eye.
On the pinko commie the nose is down below and to the right of the eye.
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posted on
03/30/2023 12:07:37 PM PDT
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DannyTN
To: Red Badger
Just eyeballed it. Not too close.
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posted on
03/30/2023 12:08:14 PM PDT
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DannyTN
To: MtnClimber
“dark doodad”
Sounds racist.
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posted on
03/30/2023 12:18:09 PM PDT
by
Leep
(Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
To: Leep
I can see it natural to name it 0bama, but to avoid racist accusations it is just as appropriate to name it Biden.
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posted on
03/30/2023 12:23:12 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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posted on
03/30/2023 12:31:26 PM PDT
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Nifster
( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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