NASA's featured astronomy picture for September 27, 2012 was a shot of giant wafts of cosmic dust, along with numerous tiny stars, over the constellation of Corona Australis. Normally I have great trouble in identifying the series of stars that compose a constellation, especially when there are so many other bright objects in the sky from the Milky Way galaxy, but I can easily distinguish those that outline the "Southern Crown." The dark, thick part of the dust cloud is presumed to stretch for about eight light-years. The stunning bright blue spots are actually reflection nebulae, the light coming from hot stars reflected onto the dust.
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