LBN 762 in Aries |
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LBN 762 a bright nebula in constellation Aries. Rarely imaged, it is a Lynds Bright Nebula (Lynds, Beverly T., 1965) with an apparent size of 30 arcmin. It's a brownish color concentrated dust cloud which is a part of a much larger molecular cloud that is designated as MBM 13 (Magnani, Blitz and Mundy, 1985). High-latitude clouds are predominately diffuse or translucent and are thus difficult to detect on photographic surveys. Sandage (1976) subsequently showed that interpretation of these structures as reflection nebulosities illuminated by the Galactic plane yielded surface brightness predictions deduced from the neutral hydrogen column density. This high latitude molecular cloud of our Milky Way galaxy is a closest star nursery to our Solar System containing pre-main sequence stars. |
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