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APOD: 2024 June 14 – RCW 85

APOD: 2024 June 14 – RCW 85

04 de agosto de 2026
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APOD: 2024 June 14 – RCW 85

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RCW 85

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 .

Date June 14, 2024
Credit Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh
Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)
A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC,
NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U.

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