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                               2024 November 8
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                         Helping Hand in Cassiopeia
              Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Francesco Radici

   Explanation: [5]Drifting near the plane of our Milky Way galaxy these
   dusty molecular clouds seem to extend a helping hand on a cosmic scale.
   Part of a [6]local complex of star-forming interstellar clouds they
   include LDN 1358, 1357, and 1355 from American astronomer Beverly
   Lynds' 1962 [7]Catalog of Dark Nebulae. Presenting a [8]challenging
   target for astro-imagers, the obscuring dark nebulae are nearly 3,000
   light-years away, toward rich starfields in the northern constellation
   [9]Cassiopeia. At that distance, this deep, telescopic field of view
   would span about 80 light-years.

                      Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend
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   4. https://www.flickr.com/photos/185905403@N06/
   5. https://science.nasa.gov/universe/decoding-nebulae/
   6. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020Natur.578..237A/abstract
   7. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1962ApJS....7....1L/abstract
   8. https://www.flickr.com/photos/185905403@N06/54113254362/
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