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Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Images not Posted during the Government Shutdown - Lynds Dark Nebula 43
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| 30 Oct, 2025
| Image Credit & Copyright: Team Ciel Austral
Posted on 12/15/2025 8:08:04 AM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: Sure, Halloween is an astronomy holiday. But astronomers always enjoy scanning the heavens for spook-tacular galaxies, stars, and nebulae. This favorite is item number 43 from the Beverly Lynds 1962 Catalog of Dark Nebulae, fondly known as the Cosmic Bat nebula. While its visage looks alarmingly like a scary flying mammal, Lynds Dark Nebula 43 is over 12 light-years across. Glowing with eerie light, stars are forming within the dusty interstellar molecular cloud that is dense enough to appear in silhouette against a luminous background of Milky Way stars. Watch out. This Cosmic Bat nebula is a mere 400 light-years distant toward the serpent-bearing constellation Ophiucus.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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To: MtnClimber
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12/15/2025 8:08:23 AM PST
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MtnClimber
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posted on
12/15/2025 8:09:02 AM PST
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MtnClimber
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It looks like an angry bat.
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posted on
12/15/2025 8:09:38 AM PST
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MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Looks like BATMAN!................
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posted on
12/15/2025 8:10:26 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
12/15/2025 8:20:13 AM PST
by
Diogenesis
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: Red Badger; MtnClimber
Looks like BATMAN!................ Or Pumpkinhead with wings . . . (h/t Lance Henriksen)
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posted on
12/15/2025 8:21:00 AM PST
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AFB-XYZ
(( We have two options: 1. Stand up, or 2. Bend over))
To: MtnClimber
You’re all wrong! It looks like my ex.
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posted on
12/15/2025 8:32:47 AM PST
by
econjack
To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv
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posted on
12/15/2025 8:54:34 AM PST
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Thanks! There *may* have been a topic about it as well.
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posted on
12/15/2025 11:02:19 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
12/15/2025 11:32:34 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/15/2025 7:02:07 PM PST
by
telescope115
(Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
To: BenLurkin
I think it was two black holes merging.................
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posted on
12/15/2025 7:10:53 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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