Galaxy Map on Nostr: Someone asked me once about all the dust seen in the direction of Polaris, a dust ...

Someone asked me once about all the dust seen in the direction of Polaris, a dust cloud called the "Polaris Flare".

So far as I can tell, the Polaris Flare and Cepheus Flare are both high latitude dust clouds that extend above the larger Cepheus Rift cloud complex and are located about 300 parsecs away. So the Polaris Flare is a background dust cloud. I don't think that there is much dust around the Polaris star system, which lies within the mostly dust-free interior of the Local Bubble.