Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Ophiuchus (Oph)
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LDN 43 (The Cosmic Bat Nebula), Eduardo Rigoldi Fernandes
LDN 43 (The Cosmic Bat Nebula), Eduardo Rigoldi Fernandes

LDN 43 (The Cosmic Bat Nebula)

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LDN 43 (The Cosmic Bat Nebula), Eduardo Rigoldi Fernandes
LDN 43 (The Cosmic Bat Nebula), Eduardo Rigoldi Fernandes

LDN 43 (The Cosmic Bat Nebula)

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Located about 1400 light years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, this molecular cloud is dense enough to block light not only from background stars, but from wisps of gas lit up by the nearby reflection nebula LBN 7.

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LDN 43 (The Cosmic Bat Nebula), Eduardo Rigoldi Fernandes

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