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                                  2022 January 17   
      
                              Chamaeleon Dark Nebulas   
      Image Credit & Copyright: Jarmo Ruuth, Telescope Live, Heaven's Mirror   
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      Explanation: Sometimes the dark dust of interstellar space has an   
      angular elegance. Such is the case toward the far-south constellation   
      of Chamaeleon. Normally too faint to see, dark dust is best known for   
      blocking visible light from stars and galaxies behind it. In this   
      four-hour exposure, however, the dust is seen mostly in light of its   
      own, with its strong red and near-infrared colors giving creating a   
      brown hue. Contrastingly blue, the bright star Beta Chamaeleontis is   
      visible just to the right of center, with the dust that surrounds it   
      preferentially reflecting blue light from its primarily blue-white   
      color. All of the pictured stars and dust occur in our own Milky Way   
      Galaxy with -- but one notable exception: the white spot just below   
      Beta Chamaeleontis is the galaxy IC 3104 which lies far in the   
      distance. Interstellar dust is mostly created in the cool atmospheres   
      of giant stars and dispersed into space by stellar light, stellar   
      winds, and stellar explosions such as supernovas.   
      
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