The dark area stretching from the center of this picture to the upper right is about 50 light-years long and lies in the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy. What is it?

A) a star-forming cloud
B) a region of the galactic plane in which there are few stars
C) the expanding remains of a supernova
D) a black hole


A) a star-forming cloud

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