Many know the Great Orion Nebula (M42) in Orion’s Sword as a bright diffuse nebula — a glowing cloud of cosmic gas illuminated by the Trapezium star cluster. But the Orion Nebula also has a dark side, ...
Just as Rene Magritte wrote “This is not a pipe” on his famous painting, this is also not a pipe. It is however a picture of part of a vast dark cloud of interstellar dust called the Pipe Nebula. This ...
Beverly Lynds' catalog of dark nebulae (LDNs) is a crucial resource for astronomers. Existing methods for identifying LDNs in images are often inaccurate. A new project is digitally annotating Lynds' ...
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