This image is a denoted version, marking prominent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dark_nebula" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:dark nebula">dark clouds</a> (white text) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/star_cloud" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:star cloud">star clouds</a> (black text), of an image that was rendered by bsrender (<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://github.com/kevinloch/bsrender">https://github.com/kevinloch/bsrender</a>) using the star records from the Gaia EDR3 dataset (<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/earlydr3">https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/earlydr3</a>).
<p>Left hemisphere is facing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/galactic_center" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:galactic center">galactic center</a>, right hemisphere is facing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/galactic_anticenter" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:galactic anticenter">galactic anticenter</a>. Color saturation has been increased 4x and white balance was set to 4200K.  Original 32000x16000 resolution rednering has been scaled down to 8k.
</p><p><b>Sources of names:</b>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://skyandtelescope.org/observing/a-trip-down-the-great-rift/">https://skyandtelescope.org/observing/a-trip-down-the-great-rift/</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://astronomy.com/magazine/stephen-omeara/2012/04/where-is-the-northern-coalsack">[1]</a></li>
<li>others</li></ul>
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