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• a variation of Coalsack.

Coal Sack

British  

noun

1. a dark nebula in the Milky Way close to the Southern Cross

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Coal Sack

This gulf of Cimmerian darkness was called by early navigators the Coal Sack.

From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Thomas Nathaniel Orchard

This dark space has been called the "Coal Sack."

From A Field Book of the Stars by William Tyler Olcott

The most remarkable of these holes is one in the neighbourhood of the Southern Cross, known as the "Coal Sack in Crux."

From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage

There is a still more remarkable one south of the equator, called the Coal Sack, as a sort of nickname that has a farcical force from its very inadequacy. 

From Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy

Note "The Coal Sack," one of the dark gap in the Milky Way.

From A Field Book of the Stars by William Tyler Olcott

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