Subj : Daily APOD Report
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From : Alan Ianson
Date : Fri Mar 18 2022 00:41:46

                        Astronomy Picture of the Day

    Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
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                                2022 March 18

                           A Filament in Monoceros
                  Image Credit & Copyright: Giorgio Ferrari

   Explanation: Bluish reflection nebulae seem to fill this dusty expanse.
   The sharp telescopic frame spans over 1 degree on the sky toward the
   faint but fanciful constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. Seen within
   the Monoceros R1 cloud complex some 2,500 light-years away, bluish IC
   447 is on the left, joined by a long dark filament of dust to IC 446 at
   lower right. Embedded in IC 447 are young, massive blue stars much
   hotter than the Sun, whose light is reflected by the cosmic cloud of
   star stuff. Observations reveal that IC 446 also contains a young
   stellar object, a massive star still in an early stage of evolution.
   The dark filament of dust and molecular gas joining the two
   star-forming regions is over 15 light-years long.

                 Tomorrow's picture: 2MASS J17554042+6551277
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