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Coalsack comparison table

Subject	has definition	has distance	is a kind of	is an instance of
dark nebula	A relatively dense cloud of interstellar matter whose dust particles obscure the light from stars beyond it and give the cloud the appearance of a region devoid of stars.		nebula
Coalsack	A prominent dark nebula readily visible to the naked eye, located on the galactic plane.	170 pc		dark nebula

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