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                                  2023 February 4   
      
                      NGC 2626 along the Vela Molecular Ridge   
                Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby & Mark Hanson   
      
      Explanation: Centered in this colorful cosmic canvas, NGC 2626 is a   
      beautiful, bright, blue reflection nebula in the southern Milky Way.   
      Next to an obscuring dust cloud and surrounded by reddish hydrogen   
      emission from large H II region RCW 27 it lies within a complex of   
      dusty molecular clouds known as the Vela Molecular Ridge. NGC 2626 is   
      itself a cloud of interstellar dust reflecting blue light from the   
      young hot embedded star visible within the nebula. But astronomical   
      explorations reveal many other young stars and associated nebulae in   
      the star-forming region. NGC 2626 is about 3,200 light-years away. At   
      that distance this telescopic field of view would span about 30   
      light-years along the Vela Molecular Ridge.   
      
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