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**Astronomy Picture of the Day**
29 August 2025
**A Dark Veil in Ophiuchus**
Image Credit & Copyright: Katelyn Beecroft
The diffuse hydrogen-alpha glow of emission region Sh2-27 fills this cosmic scene. The field of view spans nearly 3 degrees across the nebula-rich constellation Ophiuchus toward the central Milky Way. A Dark Veil of wispy interstellar dust clouds draped across the foreground is chiefly identified as LDN 234 and LDN 204 from the 1962 Catalog of Dark Nebulae by American astronomer Beverly Lynds. Sh2-27 itself is the large but faint HII region surrounding runaway O-type star Zeta Ophiuchi. Along with the Zeta Oph HII region, LDN 234 and LDN 204 are likely 500 or so light-years away. At that distance, this telescopic frame would be about 25 light-years wide.
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"content": "**Astronomy Picture of the Day**\n\n29 August 2025\n\n**A Dark Veil in Ophiuchus**\n\nhttps://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2508/DarkVeil_v2p2048.jpeg\n\nImage Credit \u0026 Copyright: Katelyn Beecroft\n\nThe diffuse hydrogen-alpha glow of emission region Sh2-27 fills this cosmic scene. The field of view spans nearly 3 degrees across the nebula-rich constellation Ophiuchus toward the central Milky Way. A Dark Veil of wispy interstellar dust clouds draped across the foreground is chiefly identified as LDN 234 and LDN 204 from the 1962 Catalog of Dark Nebulae by American astronomer Beverly Lynds. Sh2-27 itself is the large but faint HII region surrounding runaway O-type star Zeta Ophiuchi. Along with the Zeta Oph HII region, LDN 234 and LDN 204 are likely 500 or so light-years away. At that distance, this telescopic frame would be about 25 light-years wide.\n\n#APOD #Astroengineer #SpaceResearch #Astrochemistry #Astrophoto\n\nhttps://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250829.html\n",
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