Rigil Kentaurus and Sandqvist 169

Rigil Kentaurus is the vivid superstar attain the head of this nice southern skyscape. Pointless to converse or no longer it is potentially better identified as Alpha Centauri, nearest superstar system to the Sun. Beneath it sprawls a darkish nebula advanced. The obscuring interstellar dust clouds consist of Sandqvist catalog clouds 169 and 172 in silhouette towards the rich starfields along the southern Milky Device. Rigil Kent is a mere 4.37 light-years away, but the dusty darkish nebulae lie at the fringe of the starforming Circinus-West molecular cloud about 2,500 light-years a long way-off. The massive-field of explore spans over 12 degrees (24 chunky moons) across southern skies.