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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Small Dark Nebula
NASA ^ | 1 Aug, 2025 | Image Credit & Copyright: Peter Bresseler

Posted on 08/01/2025 12:07:40 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: A small, dark, nebula looks isolated near the center of this telescopic close-up. The wedge-shaped cosmic cloudlet lies within a relatively crowded region of space though. About 7,000 light-years distant and filled with glowing gas and an embedded cluster of young stars, the region is known as M16 or the Eagle Nebula. Hubble's iconic images of the Eagle Nebula include the famous star-forming Pillars of Creation, towering structures of interstellar gas and dust 4 to 5 light-years long. But this small dark nebula, known to some as a Bok globule, is a fraction of a light-year across. The Bok globule stands out in silhouette against the expansive background of M16's diffuse glow. Found scattered within emission nebulae and star clusters, Bok globules are small interstellar clouds of cold molecular gas and obscuring dust that also form stars within their dense, collapsing cores.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa

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1 posted on 08/01/2025 12:07:40 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 08/01/2025 12:07:58 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; A Navy Vet; A_perfect_lady; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; ...
Pinging the APOD list

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3 posted on 08/01/2025 12:08:43 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Looks like a stick figure being chased by a tornado.


4 posted on 08/01/2025 12:12:34 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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Wow.


5 posted on 08/01/2025 12:16:32 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ComputerGuy

Gumby holding a black balloon.


6 posted on 08/01/2025 12:32:25 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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Different!


7 posted on 08/01/2025 12:35:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: ComputerGuy; Deaf Smith
Joe Btfsplk


8 posted on 08/01/2025 12:38:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: ComputerGuy
Looks like a stick figure being chased by a tornado.

An Oklahoma nebula, to be sure. Tornado . . . Heh. :-)

9 posted on 08/01/2025 2:15:58 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (( We have two options: 1. Stand up, or 2. Bend over))
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