Pipe Nebula
A rift in the star fields of Ophiuchus, shaped like a smoker’s pipe, that extends from the region of the Rho Ophiuchi Nebula and the Lagoon Nebula. It includes a number of dark nebulae, including Barnard 59 (at the western tip of the Pipe, just south of NGC 6293), 65, 66, 67, 77, 244, and 256.
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• NEBULAE AND STAR CLUSTERS
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