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The Coalsack Nebula and the galactic area surrounding it played a large role in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Universe, particularly The Mote in God's Eye and the sequel The Gripping Hand, both co-authored with Larry Niven. In these novels, a human-colonized system, New Caledonia, is on the opposite side of the Coalsack from Earth.
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The Horsehead Nebula. Coalsack Nebula; Cone Nebula; Dark Doodad Nebula; Dark Horse Nebula; Horsehead Nebula ; Pipe Nebula (also see Dark Horse Nebula; includes Barnard 59, 77 and 78) Snake Nebula (also see Dark Horse Nebula) Keyhole Nebula
BZ Crucis is the bright star between the open clusters NGC 4609 and Hogg 15. HD 110432 is a Be star in the south-east of Crux, behind the center of the southern hemisphere's dark Coalsack Nebula.
The Coalsack Nebula lies partially within Crux and partly in the neighboring constellations of Musca and Centaurus. [3] It is the most prominent dark nebula in the skies, and is easily visible to the naked eye as a prominent dark patch in the southern Milky Way. It can be found 6.5° southeast from the centre of Crux or 3° east from α Crucis.
Scott C. Waring of UFO Sightings Daily believes the visage was put there by aliens and intended to serve as a monument.
Iris Nebula: Open Cluster and Nebula: 1.4 Cepheus: 7 C5 IC 342: Hidden Galaxy [7] Spiral Galaxy: 10,000 Camelopardalis: 9 C6 NGC 6543: Cat's Eye Nebula: Planetary Nebula: 3 Draco: 9 C7 NGC 2403 Spiral Galaxy: 14,000 Camelopardalis: 8.4 C8 NGC 559 Open Cluster: 3.7 Cassiopeia: 9.5 C9 Sh2-155: Cave Nebula: Nebula: 2.8 Cepheus: 7.7 C10 NGC 663 ...
DALLAS (AP) — NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has revealed the sharpest images yet of a portion of a horse-shaped nebula, showing the “mane” in finer detail. The Horsehead Nebula, in the constellation Orion, is 1,300 light-years away. A light-year is nearly 6 trillion miles (9.7 trillion kilometers).