Interesting object

https://www.legacysurvey.org//viewer/?ra=113.0882&dec=-50.7595&layer=ls-dr10&zoom=13
What is this? It appears to look like a nebula however it has a long tail like a comet.

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OG name lol . Looks like a silhouette

Yeah it does look really wierd. But if it is a silhouette ,what is it a silhouette of?

Looks like leftover material of star formation or bok globule - there are some more of these around

Maybe it’s a Pillars of Creation type dust cloud?

By the way - the funny colors here are because we don’t have full coverage in the four bands used for the β€œDR10” color map – but if you switch to the β€œDR10 Images (grz)” layer, it looks right! –
https://www.legacysurvey.org//viewer/?ra=113.1235&dec=-50.7574&layer=ls-dr10-grz&zoom=11

It appears you are correct. It said that in Simbad these clouds are a cometary globule or a pillar. I wonder which star created them?