Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                               2020 October 29
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                            The Ghoul of IC 2118
          Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Casey Good/Steve Timmons

   Explanation: [5]Inspired by the halloween season, [6]this telescopic
   portrait captures a cosmic cloud with a scary visage. The interstellar
   scene lies within the dusty expanse of reflection nebula IC 2118 in the
   constellation Orion. IC 2118 is about 800 light-years from your
   neighborhood, [7]close to bright bluish star Rigel at the foot of
   Orion. Often identified as [8]the Witch Head nebula for its appearance
   in a wider field of view it [9]now rises before the witching hour
   though. With spiky stars for eyes, the ghoulish apparition identified
   here seems to extend an arm toward Orion's hot supergiant star. The
   source of illumination for IC 2118, Rigel is just beyond this frame at
   the upper left.

                     Tomorrow's picture: fear and terror
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