BOUNDLESS EXPANSE 3D

The Coalsack

DARK NEBULA · the hole in the sky
The Coalsack
AI illustration of the real object
WHERE beside the Southern CrossDISTANCE about 600 light years

The most famous dark patch in the heavens: a cloud of cold dust that blots out the bright southern Milky Way like spilled ink. Aboriginal Australian sky lore reads it as the head of a great celestial emu drawn in darkness instead of stars. It is not empty at all, just opaque, a nursery cloud that may form stars one day.

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