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APOD's 2026-09-10 feature highlights LDN 1295, the Giraffe Nebula—a dark dust cloud in Cassiopeia—whose giraffe-like silhouette comes from pareidolia; credits go to Alessandro Merga and Cecilia Chirenti, with a note about APOD's site move to science.nasa.gov/apod.
A space photographer captured the shadowy dark nebula LDN 1245 in Cassiopeia, whose dust lanes form a giraffe-like silhouette against the Milky Way. The image illustrates how dark nebulae block background starlight to create dramatic cosmic silhouettes, with 25 hours of exposure at Starfront Observatory and post-processing to reveal the giraffe-shaped feature.