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Haunting the Cepheus Flare

NASA APOD · Giovanni Benintende
COSMIC MESSAGE

Spooky shapes drift through the royal constellation Cepheus. These are cosmic dust clouds, faintly visible in reflected starlight. They are at the edge of the Cepheus Flare molecular cloud complex, about 1,200 light-years away. One nebula, vdB 141 or Sh2-136, is over two light-years across.

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ZODIAC CONTEXT
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SCORPIO

In tropical astrology, 30 OCT 2008 falls under Scorpio (♏). The sign's window runs from 10-23 through 11-21. Scorpio is marked by Antares, a red supergiant the size of Mars's orbit. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 30 OCT 2008.

THE ALMANAC FOR 30 OCT 2008
DAY
Thursday
MOON
New moon, 1% lit
POSITION
Day 304 of 366
SAME DAY, OTHER YEARS
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