Chameleon I dark cloud

The Chameleon I dark cloud is a molecular cloud in the larger Chameleon Dark Cloud Complex, and a site of low-mass star formation. It is located some 140 parsecs away from the Sol system and is characterized by abundant shock-excited molecular hydrogen knots.

Objects

A map of the region.

The cloud includes such objects as

• star systems
  • the HD 97048 protoplanetary system
  • the CHXR 26 system
  • the CHXR 73 system
  • the CHXR 74 system
  • CHXR 78C
  • Glass I

• freefloating brown dwarfs
  • Cha H Alpha 1
  • Cha H Alpha 2
  • Cha H Alpha 3
  • Cha H Alpha 4
  • Cha H Alpha 5
  • Cha H Alpha 6

• others
  • class I low mass stellar object ISO-ChaI 192
  • LH Alpha 332-17
  • B 34
  • HM 15
  • HM 16
  • Sz23
  • VW Cha