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Loading contentThe first systematic catalogue of dark nebulae, compiled by Edward Emerson Barnard from his pioneering photographs of the Milky Way. The 1919 list of 182 objects was later extended to 370; each 'B' object is a cloud of interstellar dust silhouetted against the star fields behind it, such as B33, the Horsehead Nebula.
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Official naming, definitions, constellation boundaries, and astronomical nomenclature.