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                        Astronomy Picture of the Day

   [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
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                    written by a professional astronomer.

                               2020 October 26
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                       Reflections of the Ghost Nebula
                 Image Credit & Copyright: [3]Bogdan Jarzyna

   Explanation: Do any shapes seem to jump out at you from this
   interstellar field of stars and dust? The jeweled expanse, filled with
   faint, starlight-reflecting clouds, drifts through the night in the
   royal constellation of [4]Cepheus. Far from your own neighborhood on
   planet [5]Earth, these ghostly apparitions lurk along the plane of the
   Milky Way at the edge of the [6]Cepheus Flare molecular cloud complex
   some 1,200 light-years away. Over two [7]light-years across and
   brighter than the other spooky chimeras, [8]VdB 141 or Sh2-136 is also
   known as the [9]Ghost Nebula, seen at toward the bottom of the
   [10]featured image. Within the [11]reflection nebula are the telltale
   signs of dense cores [12]collapsing in the early [13]stages of star
   formation.

                    Tomorrow's picture: venusian volcano
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References

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   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2010/GhostNebula_Jarzyna_960.jpg
   3. http://www.astrobogdan.pl/about-me/
   4. http://www.dibonsmith.com/cep_con.htm
   5. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/earth/overview/
   6. http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4761
   7. https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/light-year/en/
   8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Nebula
   9. https://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1060.html
  10. http://www.astrobogdan.pl/nebulae/vdb-141-the-ghost-nebula-in-cepheus/
  11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_nebula
  12. http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/mission/213-Stars
  13. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ApJS..185..451K/abstract
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