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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.   
      
                                   2024 June 14   
      
                                      RCW 85   
                       Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh   
      
      Explanation: From the 1960 astronomical catalog of Rodgers, Campbell   
      and Whiteoak, emission region RCW 85 shines in southern night skies   
      between bright stars Alpha and Beta Centauri. About 5,000 light years   
      distant, the hazy interstellar cloud of glowing hydrogen gas and dust   
      is faint. But detailed structures along well-defined rims within RCW 85   
      are traced in this cosmic skyscape composed of 28 hours of narrow and   
      broadband exposures. Suggestive of dramatic shapes in other stellar   
      nurseries where natal clouds of gas and dust are sculpted by energetic   
      winds and radiation from newborn stars, the tantalizing nebula has been   
      called the Devil's Tower. This telescopic frame would span around 100   
      light-years at the estimated distance of RCW 85.   
      
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