This image contains a sprawl of fascinating objects along the edge of the Taurus molecular cloud, located 500 light-years away in the constellation of Taurus at a declination of +28 degrees.
Moving from left to right across the image are three interesting Barnard dark nebula regions:
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Barnard 214 at left, which contains the Young Stellar Object (YSO)
RY Tau:
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Barnard 7 at center, which contains the YSO
V1023 Tau. Barnard 10 is the small brighter brown region at the center of Barnard 7:
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Barnard 209 at right, which contains the YSO
CW Tau:
In the lower right of the image is the galaxy
IC 359, 180 million light years from earth. This is a monstrous galaxy, twice the size of the Milky Way at 250,000 light years in diameter. It is the dominant galaxy in the LDC 290 galaxy group, of which numerous faint galaxies can be seen in the vicinity of IC 359:
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