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                              2024 September 24
    [2]A brown dusty nebula is shown in front of a star field. The nebula
   looks to some like a baboon, with red emission stemming from the mouth
   and blue reflection from the eyes. Please see the explanation for more
                            detailed information.

                    NGC 6727: The Rampaging Baboon Nebula
            Image Credit & Copyright: [3]Alpha Zhang & [4]Ting Yu

   Explanation: This dusty region is forming stars. Part of a sprawling
   [5]molecular cloud complex that [6]resembles, to some, a rampaging
   [7]baboon, the region is a relatively close by 500 [8]light-years away
   toward the constellation [9]Corona Australis. That's about one third
   the distance of the more famous [10]stellar nursery known as the
   [11]Orion Nebula. Mixed with bright nebulosities, the brown [12]dust
   clouds effectively block light from more distant background stars in
   the [13]Milky Way and [14]obscure from view embedded stars still in the
   process of formation. The eyes of the [15]dust creature in the
   [16]featured image are actually blue [17]reflection nebulas cataloged
   as [18]NGC 6726, 6727, 6729, and [19]IC 4812, while the red mouth glows
   with [20]light emitted by hydrogen gas. Just to the upper left of the
   baboon's head is [21]NGC 6723, a whole [22]globular cluster of stars
   nearly 30,000 light years in the distance.

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   5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_cloud
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   7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baboon
   8. https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/light-year/
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  17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_nebula
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  19. https://theskylive.com/sky/deepsky/ic4812-object
  20. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen-alpha
  21. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_6723
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