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                                2024 June 14
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                                   RCW 85
                 Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Martin Pugh

   Explanation: From the 1960 astronomical catalog of [5]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 [6]this cosmic skyscape composed of 28 hours of narrow
   and broadband exposures. Suggestive of dramatic shapes in other
   [7]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 [8]of RCW 85.

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   4. https://www.martinpughastrophotography.space/about
   5. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1960MNRAS.121..103R/abstract
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