The Corona Australis Molecular Cloud produces new stars, hot and blue, that light up the dust like two eyes of a ghostly alien. Each eye of this alien is two stars (not double stars, but aligned from our line of sight), yet each of the four is also a close double or multiple star. Just below the left eye is fan-shaped nebula NGC 6729. At the fan's point is R CoA and following up closely is T CoA, both very young stars. Just to the right is curly HH100, an Herbig-Haro object spewed from a newly forming star. Appearing above the nebulosity is NGC 6723, a background globular cluster some 30,000 light years away. This is from data obtained by Martin Pugh with a Tak FSQ106.
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