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Mapping the Densest Dusty Cloud Cores
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Astronomers have found cosmic clumps so dark, dense and dusty that they throw the deepest shadows ever recorded. A large cloud looms in the center of this image of the galactic plane from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Credit lineMapping the Densest Dusty Cloud Cores. NASA/JPL, 2014-05-21. Public domain. ID: PIA18010.