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R Coronae Australis region

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Original – R Coronae Australis. According to ESO, "The light blue nebulosity seen in this picture is mostly due to the reflection of starlight off small dust particles." "The huge dust cloud in which the reflection nebula is embedded is here shown in impressively fine detail. The subtle colours and varied textures of the dust clouds make this image resemble an impressionist painting. A prominent dark lane crosses the image from the centre to the bottom left. Here the visible light emitted by the stars that are forming inside the cloud is completely absorbed by the dust."

Reason

This is the only photograph in the article Corona Australis and the EV is good. I have expanded the caption in the article.

Articles in which this image appears

Corona Australis

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out

Creator

European Southern Observatory

• Support as nominator --Pine^✉ 23:24, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
• Support per nom. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 17:14, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
• Support Per nom. Stunning. Dusty777 02:05, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
• Support good Mediran ^{talk|contribs} 08:58, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
• Support Tomer T (talk) 07:27, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Promoted File:R Coronae Australis region.jpg --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:17, 10 October 2012 (UTC)