molecular clouds

[flykiller]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031013.html

does anyone use this sort of terrain, or something similar, in their star maps?

 

[EvilDrGanymede]

Originally posted by flykiller:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031013.html

does anyone use this sort of terrain, or something similar, in their star maps?

Funnily enough, that very nebula is marked on the CT Charted Space map - it's the Pelican Nebula, in the Zhodani Consulate. (not sure if that's actually in the right place though - some of the stars marked there are definitely wrong).

It'd take up at least a subsector - it's about 30 lightyears across. A picture of the bigger nebula is at http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr03/sb0308.html

and

http://www.astrophotographer.com/Pelican.html

 

[Andrew Boulton]

The APOD caption says it's 1800ly away, which is about twice as far as the map puts it.