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Mark Fisher
1999-2008
The Coalsack
An
Absorption Nebula
of the southern sky, this large dark cloud fills the southeastern portion of the
constellation
Crux
, almost completely obscuring the light from the
stars
and
Milky Way
behind it.
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Crux
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