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                                2019 August 2
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                          Chamaeleon II Dark Cloud
                 Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Don Goldman

   Explanation: A small constellation hiding near the [5]south celestial
   pole, The Chamaeleon boasts no bright stars. Stars are forming within
   its constellation boundaries though, in a complex of dark, dusty
   molecular clouds. Some 500 light-years distant, the [6]Chamaeleon II
   dark nebula inhabits this view where the cosmic dust clouds standout
   mostly in silhouette against the starry southern sky. [7]The telescopic
   frame is about the angular size of a Full Moon and so spans about 5
   light-years at the dark cloud's estimated distance. Scattered near
   center a telltale reddish glow from identified [8]Herbig-Haro objects
   is seen in the sharp image, jets of shocked glowing gas [9]emanating
   from recently formed stars.

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References

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   3. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply
   4. http://astrodonimaging.com/
   5. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180628.html
   6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamaeleon_complex
   7. https://astrodonimaging.com/gallery/cha-ii-dark-cloud/
   8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbig–Haro_object
   9. https://hubblesite.org/image/3656/news
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