Clemens [3] found that practically all
Bok globules they observed through CO spectroscopy resulted associated with IR emission, so they could affirm that "almost every
Bok globule harbours a young star".
Residing in the gas cloud known as
Bok Globule B335, the infant star lies behind a veil of dust and can't be seen in visible light.
However, in the January issue (page 54) she described the keyhole in NGC 1999 as a
Bok globule, and recent scientific reports suggest that there's actually nothing in the keyhole.
Embedded within are numerous dark
Bok globules and the open star cluster NGC 6530.
The nebulous star-forming region NGC 281 contains several back-lit dark clumps of gas and dust known as
Bok Globules.
These dusty cocoons, called
Bok globules, honor Dutch-American astronomer Bart).
Silhouetted little clumps of dark gas, called
Bok globules, drift throughout the nebula.
Malin titles it "
Bok globules in IC 2944," but perhaps that should be amended to "
Bok globules in IC 2948 with the open cluster Col 249 (C100) in the foreground."
irradiated pillar-shaped
Bok globules in the Eagle Nebula (M16).
Going further back on the stellar-evolution time line, the image also contains two dark regions called
Bok globules, named after astronomer Bart Bok, who studied these opaque molecular clouds.
Five possible
Bok globules (arrowed below) have been discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), report Donald R.