|Spooky shapes seem to haunt starry expanse, drifting through
the night in the royal constellation Of course, the shapes are
cosmic dust clouds faintly visible in dimly reflected starlight.
Far from your own neighborhood on planet Earth, they lurk at the
edge of the molecular cloud complex some 1,200 light-years away.
Over 2 light-years across the ghostly nebula and relatively Bok
globule, also known as is near the center of the field. The core
of the dark cloud on the right is collapsing and is likely a
binary star system in the early stages of formation. Even so, if
the spooky shapes could talk, they might well wish you a Mt.
Lemmon SkyCenter, University of Arizona