Copyright:Marco Lorenzi
原文:
The delightful Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies, a tantalizing target for binoculars in the constellation Musca, The Fly. The dusty cosmic cloud is seen against rich starfields just south of the prominent Coalsack Nebula and the Southern Cross. Stretching for about 3 degrees across this scene the Dark Doodad is punctuated at its southern tip (lower left) by globular star cluster NGC 4372. Of course NGC 4372 roams the halo of our Milky Way Galaxy, a background object some 20,000 light-years away and only by chance along our line-of-sight to the Dark Doodad. The Dark Doodad’s well defined silhouette belongs to the Musca molecular cloud, but its better known alliterative moniker was first coined by astro-imager and writer Dennis di Cicco in 1986 while observing Comet Halley from the Australian outback. The Dark Doodad is around 700 light-years distant and over 30 light-years long.
中文翻譯:
🌌 在南半球的星空中，迷人的 Dark Doodad Nebula 令人著迷，成為了雙筒望遠鏡的理想觀測目標，位於昆蟄座 (Musca)。這片多塵的宇宙雲彩，呈現出航行中的寧靜，背景是璀璨的恆星海洋，恰好位於著名的煤袋星雲 (Coalsack Nebula) 和南十字座 (Southern Cross) 的正南方。
✨ Dark Doodad 伸展約 3 度，並在其南端（左下方）被球狀星團 NGC 4372 所點綴。NGC 4372 約距離我們 20,000 光年，運行在銀河系的光環中，與 Dark Doodad 只是沿著我們的視線偶然交疊。Dark Doodad 的明確剪影屬於 Musca 分子雲，其更知名的別名是由天文攝影師及作家 Dennis di Cicco 在 1986 年觀察哈雷彗星 (Comet Halley) 時首次創造的。Dark Doodad 距離地球約 700 光年，長度超過 30 光年。
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來源:NASA每日圖片
