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Credit & Copyright: Jeff Herman
Explanation:
Spanning light-years, this
suggestive shape known as the Seahorse Nebula
appears in silhouette against a rich, luminous background of stars.
Seen toward the royal northern constellation of Cepheus,
the dusty, obscuring clouds are part of a Milky Way
molecular cloud some 1,200 light-years distant.
It is also listed as Barnard 150 (B150), one of 182
dark markings of the sky
cataloged in the early 20th century by astronomer
E. E. Barnard.
Packs of low mass stars are forming
within,
but their collapsing cores are only visible at long
infrared wavelengths.
Still, the colorful stars of Cepheus add to this
pretty, galactic
skyscape.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
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Publications with keywords: dust - molecular cloud
Publications with words: dust - molecular cloud
See also:
- APOD: 2025 August 27 B WISPIT 2b: Exoplanet Carves Gap in Birth Disk
- APOD: 2025 August 29 B A Dark Veil in Ophiuchus
- APOD: 2025 August 10 B Zodiacal Road
- APOD: 2025 August 1 B Small Dark Nebula
- APOD: 2025 July 10 B Lynds Dark Nebula 1251
- The Protostars within Lynds 483
- Stardust in the Perseus Molecular Cloud