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  • Thumbnail for Coalsack Nebula
    The Coalsack Nebula (Southern Coalsack, or simply the Coalsack) is a dark nebula, which is visible to the naked eye as a dark patch obscuring part of the...
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  • Thumbnail for Crux
    to the southeast is a large dark nebula spanning 7° by 5° known as the Coalsack Nebula, portions of which are mapped in the neighbouring constellations...
    45 KB (5,268 words) - 00:35, 28 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Great Rift (astronomy)
    bordering North America Nebula, the Great Rift starts with the Northern Coalsack at the constellation of Cygnus, where it is known as the Cygnus Rift. The...
    9 KB (829 words) - 16:22, 19 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dark nebula
    dark patches against the brighter background of the Milky Way like the Coalsack Nebula and the Great Rift. These naked-eye objects are sometimes known...
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  • Thumbnail for Cygnus (constellation)
    along the Milky Way's galactic plane. The rift begins around the Northern Coalsack, and partially obscures the larger Cygnus molecular cloud complex behind...
    52 KB (5,874 words) - 00:49, 28 February 2025
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    the most famous being the "emu in the sky" whose head is formed by the Coalsack, a dark nebula, instead of the stars. The Emu in the sky – a constellation...
    55 KB (5,804 words) - 08:29, 23 March 2025
  • Coalsack Bluff (84°14′S 162°25′E / 84.233°S 162.417°E / -84.233; 162.417) is a small rock bluff standing at the northern limits of Walcott Neve, 6 nautical...
    2 KB (287 words) - 01:21, 24 November 2023
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    the galaxy. Dark regions within the band, such as the Great Rift and the Coalsack, are areas where interstellar dust blocks light from distant stars. Peoples...
    217 KB (21,749 words) - 01:06, 28 March 2025
  • 200; 162.583 (Colbert Hills)) are a line of hills and bluffs, including Coalsack Bluff, lying east of Lewis Cliffs, between Law Glacier and Walcott Névé...
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  • rebels. New Caledonia is the capital of the Trans-Coalsack sector, on the opposite side of the Coalsack Nebula from Earth. Also in the sector is a red supergiant...
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  • Thumbnail for Emu
    Southern Cross is on the right; Scorpius on the left; the emu's head is the Coalsack. Bottom left: Coat of arms of Australia. Bottom right: The emu on a postage...
    81 KB (9,934 words) - 19:00, 20 March 2025
  • sectors of the) Milky Way background. The Emu's head is the very dark Coalsack nebula, next to the Southern Cross; the body and legs are that extension...
    38 KB (4,085 words) - 01:08, 8 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Alpha Centauri
    courage and destructiveness, who speared and killed Tchingal "The Emu" (the Coalsack Nebula). The form in Wotjobaluk is Bram-bram-bult. To the naked eye, α...
    119 KB (11,206 words) - 05:53, 25 March 2025
  • Kamilaroi cosmological lore, for them "the appearance of the Emu began at the Coalsack under the star α Crucis, which formed the Emu's head, then β and α Centauri...
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     39. ISBN 978-0-538-73317-5. O'Meara, Stephen James (2019-08-06). "The coalsacks of Cygnus". Astronomy.com. Retrieved 2023-02-10. Dobashi, Kazuhito; Matsumoto...
    27 KB (1,935 words) - 20:06, 5 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Pole star
    south celestial pole. The Magellanic Clouds, Coalsack Nebula, and Southern Cross (next to the Coalsack) are clearly visible. Near the end of the video...
    26 KB (2,543 words) - 15:39, 17 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Musca
    central star, thought to lie around 4000 light-years away from Earth. The Coalsack Nebula is a dark nebula located mainly in neighbouring Crux that intrudes...
    44 KB (4,768 words) - 23:11, 1 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Beta Centauri
    courage and destructiveness, and who spear and kill Tchingal, "The Emu" (Coalsack Nebula). The Wotjobaluk people name the two brothers Bram-bram-bult. Beta...
    20 KB (1,728 words) - 21:37, 10 March 2025
  • the train's journey together forever, but as the train approaches the Coalsack, Campanella sees what he claims to be "the true Heaven", where his mother...
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  • Thumbnail for Lystrosaurus
    description and illustration. The discovery of Lystrosaurus fossils at Coalsack Bluff in the Transantarctic Mountains by Edwin H. Colbert and his team...
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