The Southern Cross (also known as crux), the Coal Sack nebula (the Coalsack), and bright stars Alpha and Beta Centauri as seen from a sugarcane field

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The Southern Cross (also known as crux), the Coal Sack nebula (the Coalsack), and bright stars Alpha and Beta Centauri as seen from a sugarcane field in Brazil. Coalsack often the most prominent dark nebula in the skies, lying near the southern Milky Way.

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