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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
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                                 2024 September 24   
        A brown dusty nebula is shown in front of a star field. The nebula   
      looks to some like a baboon, with red emission stemming from the mouth   
      and blue reflection from the eyes. Please see the explanation for more   
                               detailed information.   
      
                       NGC 6727: The Rampaging Baboon Nebula   
                  Image Credit & Copyright: Alpha Zhang & Ting Yu   
      
      Explanation: This dusty region is forming stars. Part of a sprawling   
      molecular cloud complex that resembles, to some, a rampaging baboon,   
      the region is a relatively close by 500 light-years away toward the   
      constellation Corona Australis. That's about one third the distance of   
      the more famous stellar nursery known as the Orion Nebula. Mixed with   
      bright nebulosities, the brown dust clouds effectively block light from   
      more distant background stars in the Milky Way and obscure from view   
      embedded stars still in the process of formation. The eyes of the dust   
      creature in the featured image are actually blue reflection nebulas   
      cataloged as NGC 6726, 6727, 6729, and IC 4812, while the red mouth   
      glows with light emitted by hydrogen gas. Just to the upper left of the   
      baboon's head is NGC 6723, a whole globular cluster of stars nearly   
      30,000 light years in the distance.   
      
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