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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.
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This image was taken by the Venera 13 probe in 1982. The Coalsack Nebula is a dark nebula in the constellation of Crux Australis. Dark nebulae consist of cold dense clouds of gas and dust, which are only seen because they obscure visible light from more distant objects.
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
The Coalsack Nebula is a dark nebula in the constellation of Crux Australis.Dark nebulae consist of cold dense clouds of gas and dust, which are only seen because they obscure visible light from more distant objects.
HD 110432 is a Be star in the south-east of Crux, behind the center of the southern hemisphere's dark Coalsack Nebula. It has a stellar classification of B1IVe, which means it is a subgiant star of class B that displays emission lines in its spectrum.
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The Coalsack Nebula can be seen as the large, dark region near the top of the photo. It extends into the northeast of Musca. The vertical dark column in the lower right of the image is the Dark Doodad Nebula. Three star systems have been discovered to have exoplanets.