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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                   2025 August 1   
      
                                 Small Dark Nebula   
                     Image Credit & Copyright: Peter Bresseler   
      
      Explanation: A small, dark, nebula looks isolated near the center of   
      this telescopic close-up. The wedge-shaped cosmic cloudlet lies within   
      a relatively crowded region of space though. About 7,000 light-years   
      distant and filled with glowing gas and an embedded cluster of young   
      stars, the region is known as M16 or the Eagle Nebula. Hubble's iconic   
      images of the Eagle Nebula include the famous star-forming Pillars of   
      Creation, towering structures of interstellar gas and dust 4 to 5   
      light-years long. But this small dark nebula, known to some as a Bok   
      globule, is a fraction of a light-year across. The Bok globule stands   
      out in silhouette against the expansive background of M16's diffuse   
      glow. Found scattered within emission nebulae and star clusters, Bok   
      globules are small interstellar clouds of cold molecular gas and   
      obscuring dust that also form stars within their dense, collapsing   
      cores.   
      
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