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                              2024 November 14
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                            IC 348 and Barnard 3
               Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Ashraf Abu Sara

   Explanation: [5]A great nebulous region near bright star omicron Persei
   offers this study in cosmic contrasts. Captured in [6]the telescopic
   frame the colorful complex of dust, gas, and stars spans about 3
   degrees on the sky along the edge of the [7]Perseus molecular cloud
   some 1000 light-years away. Surrounded by a bluish halo of dust
   reflected starlight, omicron Persei itself is just left of center.
   Immediately below it lies the intriguing young star cluster IC 348
   [8]recently explored by the James Webb Space Telescope. In silhouette
   against the diffuse reddish glow of [9]hydrogen gas, dark and obscuring
   interstellar dust cloud Barnard 3 is at upper right. Of course the
   cosmic dust also tends to hide newly formed stars and young stellar
   objects or protostars from prying optical telescopes. At the Perseus
   molecular cloud's [10]estimated distance, this field of view would span
   about 50 light-years.

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   4. https://www.astrobin.com/users/aabosarah/
   5. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1915ApJ....41..253B/abstract
   6. https://www.astrobin.com/s5xyxm/
   7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseus_molecular_cloud
   8. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240115.html
   9. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050930.html
  10. http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.3393
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