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Cosmic Shark, John Lascola
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Cosmic Shark

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Cosmic Shark

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The Shark nebula (LDN-1235) is a faint cloud of interstellar gas and dust in the constellation Cepheus 650 light years away. Also shown in this image are two reflection nebulae, vdB 149 and vdB 150. These blue nebulae can be seen on the left side of the Dark Shark at top and bottom. you can spot a very far-away galaxy top middle of the photo, identified as PGC 67671

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Cosmic Shark, John Lascola