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The Great Nebula in Orion
author: R.Gendler/BYU/Novapix
reference: a-neb19-76030
Image Size 300 DPI: 20 * 20 cm
The Orion Nebula is the greatest of all HII clouds visible from our location within the Milky Way. With a gaseous repository of 10,000 suns, and illuminated by a cluster of hot young stars, the clouds of M42 glow with fantastic colors and shapes, giving us a birds eye view of one of the greatest star forming nurseries in our part of the galaxy. At a distance of 1500 light years, the Orion nebula is the nearest star-forming region to the Sun.
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