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  2. Obscured by Clouds - Wikipedia

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    Obscured by Clouds is the seventh studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 2 June 1972 by Harvest and Capitol Records.It serves as the soundtrack for the French film La Vallée, by Barbet Schroeder.

  3. British Airways Flight 009 - Wikipedia

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    The aircraft flew into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung around 110 miles (180 km) south-east of Jakarta, Indonesia, resulting in the failure of all four engines. Partly because the event occurred at night, obscuring the cloud, the reason for the failure was not immediately apparent to the crew or air traffic ...

  4. Overcast - Wikipedia

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    Overcast or overcast weather, as defined by the World Meteorological Organization, is the meteorological condition of clouds obscuring at least 95% of the sky. [1] However, the total cloud cover must not be entirely due to obscuring phenomena near the surface, such as fog. [2]

  5. Great Rift (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Rift covers one third of the Milky Way, and is flanked by strips of numerous stars, such as the Cygnus Star Cloud. [2] West of the Cepheus Clouds, the Funnel cloud/Le Gentil 3 and the bordering North America Nebula, the Great Rift starts with the Northern Coalsack at the constellation of Cygnus, where it is known as the Cygnus Rift. [3]

  6. Ceiling (cloud) - Wikipedia

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    The height above the ground or water of the base of the lowest layer of cloud below 6000 meters (20,000 feet) covering more than half the sky. [2] United Kingdom The vertical distance from the elevation of an aerodrome to the lowest part of any cloud visible from the aerodrome which is sufficient to obscure more than half of the sky. [3] United ...

  7. Zone of Avoidance - Wikipedia

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    The Milky Way creates a Zone of Avoidance for local observers. The Zone of Avoidance (ZOA, ZoA), or Zone of Galactic Obscuration (ZGO), [1] [2] is the area of the sky that is obscured by the Milky Way.

  8. Coalsack Nebula - Wikipedia

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    The Coalsack Nebula (Southern Coalsack, or simply the Coalsack) [3] is a dark nebula, which is visible to the naked eye as a dark patch obscuring part of the Milky Way east of Acrux (Alpha Crucis) in the constellation of Crux. [2]

  9. Dark nebula - Wikipedia

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    A dark nebula or absorption nebula is a type of interstellar cloud, particularly molecular clouds, that is so dense that it obscures the visible wavelengths of light from objects behind it, such as background stars and emission or reflection nebulae.