<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6c395b37-7d15-4fe9-a940-d86bcf427752/6742DBB3-A234-4042-B7AC-7D979AB44955/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090425.html" href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090425.html" style="font-size: 11px;">apod.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090425.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/apod.nasa.gov/img/0A31D6AA-F02D-4A08-AFC4-8D7325580A4C" alt="See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090425.html">Based on wide field photographs, American astronomer <A href="http://www.library.gatech.edu/search/digital_collections/ barnard/sandage.html">Edward Emerson Barnard</A> cataloged the <A href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ bib_query?1919ApJ....49....1B">dark markings of the sky</A> in the early 20th century. <A href="http://www.library.gatech.edu/search/digital_collections/barnard/ intro1.html">Barnard's markings</A> are dark nebulae, interstellar clouds of obscuring gas and dust. Their shapes are visible in <A href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap020409.html">cosmic silhouette</A> because they lie in the foreground along the line-of-sight to rich star fields and stellar nurseries near the plane of our Galaxy. This <A href="http://www.starrywonders.com/barnard7.html">deep telescopic image</A> from the early 21st century captures a tantalizing array of Barnard's dusty nebulae toward the constellation Taurus and the Taurus molecular cloud some 400 light-years away. <A href="http://www.starrywonders.com/b7labels.html">Included in</A> the nearly 1 degree wide field of view is Barnard 7 (the 7th object in the catalog) at the upper right, next to a dusty bluish reflection nebula. Young variable star <A href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050923.html">RY Tauri</A> is emerging from a yellowish cocoon of dust near top center. Typically a light-year or so across, many of Barnard's <A href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060409.html">dark nebulae</A> are themselves likely sites of future star formation. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6742DBB3-A234-4042-B7AC-7D979AB44955/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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