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                        Astronomy Picture of the Day

    Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
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                              2024 November 14

                            IC 348 and Barnard 3
                  Image Credit & Copyright: Ashraf Abu Sara

   Explanation: A great nebulous region near bright star omicron Persei
   offers this study in cosmic contrasts. Captured in the telescopic frame
   the colorful complex of dust, gas, and stars spans about 3 degrees on
   the sky along the edge of the Perseus molecular cloud some 1000
   light-years away. Surrounded by a bluish halo of dust reflected
   starlight, omicron Persei itself is just left of center. Immediately
   below it lies the intriguing young star cluster IC 348 recently
   explored by the James Webb Space Telescope. In silhouette against the
   diffuse reddish glow of hydrogen gas, dark and obscuring interstellar
   dust cloud Barnard 3 is at upper right. Of course the cosmic dust also
   tends to hide newly formed stars and young stellar objects or
   protostars from prying optical telescopes. At the Perseus molecular
   cloud's estimated distance, this field of view would span about 50
   light-years.

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