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The Coalsack Nebula and the galactic area surrounding it played a large role in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Universe, particularly The Mote in God's Eye and the sequel The Gripping Hand, both co-authored with Larry Niven. In these novels, a human-colonized system, New Caledonia, is on the opposite side of the Coalsack from Earth.
See also the references to names from other cultures at dark cloud constellations: The Horsehead Nebula. Coalsack Nebula; Cone Nebula; Dark Doodad Nebula; Dark Horse Nebula; Horsehead Nebula ; Pipe Nebula (also see Dark Horse Nebula; includes Barnard 59, 77 and 78) Snake Nebula (also see Dark Horse Nebula) Keyhole Nebula
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Coalsack Nebula: Dark Nebula: 0.61 Crux - C100 IC 2944: Lambda Centauri Nebula: Open Cluster and Nebula: 6 Centaurus: 4.5 C101 NGC 6744 Spiral Galaxy: 34,000 Pavo: 9 C102 IC 2602: Theta Car Cluster: Open Cluster: 0.492 Carina: 1.9 C103 NGC 2070: Tarantula Nebula: Open Cluster and Nebula: 170 Dorado: 8.2 C104 NGC 362 Globular Cluster: 27.7 ...
Eye of Sauron Nebula M 1-42: 10 14 Sagittarius ... Name Messier Catalogue [a] NGC [a] Other designation [a] Date discovered [a] Distance [a] [b] Apparent magnitude
The Coalsack Nebula lies partially within Crux and partly in the neighboring constellations of Musca and Centaurus. [3] It is the most prominent dark nebula in the skies, and is easily visible to the naked eye as a prominent dark patch in the southern Milky Way. It can be found 6.5° southeast from the centre of Crux or 3° east from α Crucis.
The following articles contain lists of nebulae: List of dark nebulae; List of diffuse nebulae; List of largest nebulae; List of planetary nebulae;
The closest and largest dark nebulae are visible to the naked eye, since they are the least obscured by stars in between Earth and the nebula, and because they have the largest angular size, appearing as dark patches against the brighter background of the Milky Way like the Coalsack Nebula and the Great Rift.