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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
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                                   2022 March 18   
      
                              A Filament in Monoceros   
                     Image Credit & Copyright: Giorgio Ferrari   
      
      Explanation: Bluish reflection nebulae seem to fill this dusty expanse.   
      The sharp telescopic frame spans over 1 degree on the sky toward the   
      faint but fanciful constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. Seen within   
      the Monoceros R1 cloud complex some 2,500 light-years away, bluish IC   
      447 is on the left, joined by a long dark filament of dust to IC 446 at   
      lower right. Embedded in IC 447 are young, massive blue stars much   
      hotter than the Sun, whose light is reflected by the cosmic cloud of   
      star stuff. Observations reveal that IC 446 also contains a young   
      stellar object, a massive star still in an early stage of evolution.   
      The dark filament of dust and molecular gas joining the two   
      star-forming regions is over 15 light-years long.   
      
                    Tomorrow's picture: 2MASS J17554042+6551277   
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