#Orion Sifting through Dust near Orion's Belt

Robby Ball

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Sifting through Dust near Orion's Belt

A new image of the region surrounding the reflection nebula Messier 78, just to the north of Orion’s Belt, shows clouds of cosmic dust threaded through the nebula like a string of pearls. The observations, made with the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope, use the heat glow of interstellar dust grains to show astronomers where new stars are being formed...

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Olga Katkova, Jessica Witenstein-Weaver, and Vinay Kumar +1'd yourpost.  -  9:06 AM

Robby Ball

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A touch of Sunrise for those of you that prefer seeing that what your eyelids look like in the morning ;-)
This is part of my May Madness Photography Phantasy, a pix a day will keep the gremlins away but not the insane asylum.

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