The Dark River in the Pipe Nebula


	The Dark River in the Pipe Nebula

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<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/5c6b393b-695c-4ea4-965c-550e836a96af/F9A95ACB-C7A4-4EBF-B389-064D0988259E/" 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://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/darkriver_ruiz_big.jpg" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/darkriver_ruiz_big.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/darkriver_ruiz_big.jpg"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/img/22414D2F-37D5-4F6C-ABC2-4C4FACC111E7" alt="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/darkriver_ruiz_big.jpg" /></div></blockquote><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://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" 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://www.coolscifi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=194106" href="http://www.coolscifi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=194106" style="font-size: 11px;">www.coolscifi.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.coolscifi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=194106"><DIV>
 <B> Explanation: </B> Connecting the <A target="_blank" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020526.html">Pipe Nebula</A> to the bright star Antares is a flowing dark cloud nicknamed the <A target="_blank" href="http://www.astropix.com/HTML/D_SUM_S/PIPE.HTM">Dark River</A>. The murkiness of the <A target="_blank" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030928.html">Dark River</A> is caused by absorption of background starlight by <A target="_blank" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030706.html">dust</A>, although the nebula contains mostly <A target="_blank" href="http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/1.html">hydrogen</A> and molecular gas. <A target="_blank" href="http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/antares.html">Antares</A>, the bright <A target="_blank" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980726.html">star</A> that appears yellow just below the center of the frame, is embedded in the <A target="_blank" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070903.html">colorful Rho Ophiuchi</A> nebula clouds. The Dark River, pictured above across the upper left, spans over 20 times the angular diameter of the <A target="_blank" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051113.html">Moon</A> and lies about 500 <A target="_blank" href="http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/cosmic_distance.html">light years</A> distant. Other types of <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula">nebulas</A> visible here include red <A target="_blank" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/emission_nebulae.html">emission nebula</A> and the <A target="_blank" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/reflection_nebulae.html">blue reflection</A> nebula. </DIV></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/F9A95ACB-C7A4-4EBF-B389-064D0988259E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.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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