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Coalsack

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Coal·sack  (klsk)
n.
1. A dark nebula, one of the nearest to Earth, that appears in the southern Milky Way.
2. A similar dark nebula in the Northern Hemisphere near the constellation Cygnus.
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The Magellanic clouds in the south, the Southern Cross with the Coalsack clearly distinguishable and the magnificent starfields of the Crux region; even Omega Centauri and 47 Tucanae were all easily visible without the intervention of a pair of binoculars.
First National star party in South Africa by Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa
Coalsack, winner of the Carlos Pellegrini in 1998, stayed on for third, another four lengths back.
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The Light and the Dark: A Reassessment of the Discovery of the Coalsack Nebula, the Magellanic Clouds and the Southern Cross.
Reading through Galileo's Telescope. Margaret Cavendish and the ... by SPILLER, ELIZABETH A. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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