Nebula
Coalsack Nebula
Dark nebula · C99
Dark nebula in Crux
Photo: ESO/S. Brunier · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The Coalsack Nebula is a dark nebula, which is visible to the naked eye as a dark patch obscuring part of the Milky Way east of Acrux in the constellation of Crux.
Description from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Key facts
Distance
~610 light-years
Catalogue
C99
Did you know
- Listed as Caldwell 99 in the Caldwell catalogue.
- Found in the constellation Crux.
