Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  The star 16 Cep  ·  The star 24 Cep
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The Dark Shark, Scott Denning
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The Dark Shark

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The Dark Shark

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We're gonna need a bigger boat!
This gigantic cloud of interstellar dust looks so much like a predatory shark that I find it hard to believe it's actually 15 light years long. That's about 12,000 times the size of our entire solar system!

If you look closely, you'll see that the bright spot behind the dorsal fin isn't a barnacle. It's a background spiral galaxy far far away.

7 hours of exposure from 10,500 feet elevation at our mountain cabin last weekend.

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The Dark Shark, Scott Denning