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Southern cross and Coal Sack nebula

author: S.Guisard/Novapix

reference: a-cst26-00018

Image Size 300 DPI: 33 * 22 cm

The Coal Sack is a large dark patch lying in very rich star field of the milky way. It is a dark nebula, an interstellar dust cloud obscuring the light of the stars behind it.

Keywords for this photo:

2006 - ASTRONOMY - COAL SACK - CONSTELLATION - CRUX - DARK NEBULA - MOLECULAR CLOUD - SOUTHERN CROSS - SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE - STAR -