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on Nov 24, 2012

Dark interstellar clouds

A Hubble Space Telescope image showing dark clouds, called Bok Globules, floating through the IC 2944 star cluster. Sitting 6000 light-years from Earth, these clouds are sites of future star formation.

A Hubble Space Telescope image showing dark clouds, called Bok Globules, floating through the IC 2944 star cluster. Sitting 6000 light-years from Earth, these clouds are sites of future star formation.

Dark interstellar clouds