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Cosmic Chamaeleon

Warren Keller, taken from Yass, New South Wales, Australia

The Chamaeleon complex, lying around 620 light-years away in its eponymous southern constellation, is a star-forming region that is home to hundreds of young stars and protoplanetary disks. The imager took 8 hours of LRGB exposure with a 4-inch scope.