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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.   
      
                                  2023 January 25   
           An image of a foreboding dark nebula before a red-glowing gas   
           background and many bright and colorful stars. Please see the   
                    explanation for more detailed information.   
      
                          LDN 1622: The Boogeyman Nebula   
                      Image Credit & Copyright: Joshua Carter   
      
      Explanation: To some, the dark shape looks like a mythical boogeyman.   
      Scientifically, Lynds' Dark Nebula (LDN) 1622 appears against a faint   
      background of glowing hydrogen gas only visible in long telescopic   
      exposures of the region. In contrast, the brighter reflection nebula   
      vdB 62 is more easily seen just above and to the right of center in the   
      featured image. LDN 1622 lies near the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy,   
      close on the sky to Barnard's Loop, a large cloud surrounding the rich   
      complex of emission nebulae found in the Belt and Sword of Orion. With   
      swept-back outlines, the obscuring dust of LDN 1622 is thought to lie   
      at a similar distance, perhaps 1,500 light-years away. At that   
      distance, this 2-degree wide field of view would span about 60   
      light-years. Young stars do lie hidden within the dark expanse and have   
      been revealed in Spitzer Space Telescope infrared images.   
      
                        Tomorrow's picture: wild and crazy   
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