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Robert Lea

Astronomers gaze into 'dark nebula' 60 times the size of the solar system (video)

A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West molecular cloud creeps across this image taken with the Department of Energy-fabricated 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam).

Astronomers have discovered a dense stellar nursery packed with infant stars in a vast "cosmic ink blot."

The team made the discovery using one of the most powerful digital cameras in the world: the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) mounted on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.

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