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APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
The text describes the Dark Doodad Nebula, a dusty interstellar cloud in the constellation Musca, and its visual alignment with the globular star cluster NGC 4372.
Why it matters
It provides location details for amateur astronomers using binoculars to find these objects in southern skies.
The details
- The Dark Doodad is a potentially star-forming molecular cloud 700 light-years away.
- NGC 4372 is a globular star cluster located 20,000 light-years away.
- Dennis di Cicco coined the name 'Dark Doodad' in 1986.
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