APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad

NASA News highlights the Dark Doodad Nebula in the latest Astronomy Picture of the Day—a dusty interstellar cloud visible in southern skies near the constellation Musca. Stretching roughly three degrees across, the nebula frames the yellowish globular star cluster NGC 4372, approximately twenty thousand light-years away in our galaxy's halo. Per NASA News, this star-forming region makes a striking binocular target just south of the Southern Cross.

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