Astronomy Picture of the Day

Thank you, my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for sharing the link to the NASA site focused on the "Dark Nebula in Orion" AKA the "Boogeyman' Nebula - whose afraid of the the "Boogeyman" or Virginia Woolf for that matter :-)
I posted the text for the image below.
"Explanation: The silhouette of an intriguing dark nebula inhabits this cosmic scene. Lynds' Dark Nebula (LDN) 1622 appears against a faint background of glowing hydrogen gas only easily seen in long telescopic exposures of the region. LDN 1622 lies near the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, close on the sky to Barnard's Loop, a large cloud surrounding the rich complex of emission nebulae found in the Belt and Sword of Orion. But the obscuring dust of LDN 1622 is thought to be much closer than Orion's more famous nebulae, perhaps only 500 light-years away. At that distance, this 1 degree wide field of view would span less than 10 light-years. Its foreboding appearance lends this dark expanse a popular name, the Boogeyman Nebula."
Thank you for mentioning me, my friend TSgt Joe C.

Really great photo Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D.!

COL Mikel J. Burroughs Maj Marty Hogan SGT John " Mac " McConnell LTC Stephen F. Sgt Randy Wilber SGT Gregory Lawritson CW5 Jack Cardwell TSgt David L. Cpl (Join to see) Maj William W. 'Bill' Price CPL Dave Hoover LTC Greg Henning Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Alan K. CWO3 Dennis M. PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Lt Col Charlie Brown SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL TSgt Steve Waide SPC Margaret Higgins

I see the reason for the nickname. Orion is one of the first constellations I learned to pick out