Adorning the Southern Crown is a melee of dust clouds and young, energy filled stars. Corona Australis is less than 500 light years from Earth, close enough for the dust clouds to put the Crown in the spotlight by blocking out light from background stars of the Milky Way. The Crown even has a reflection nebulae, giving the area it's blue hue as light from the young, hot stars is reflected by the cosmic dust. Another nebula bends around The R Coronae Australis star. The Herbig-Haro objects loop and glow as arcs of new stars form. A truly dazzling region.
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