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The Sword of Orion

This image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Orion nebula, our closest massive star-making factory, 1,450 light-years from Earth. The nebula is close enough to appear to the naked eye as a fuzzy star in the sword of the constellation.

Date
2006-08-15
Photographer / author
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Toledo
Collection
JPL
Archive
NASA Image and Video Library
Type
photograph

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"The Sword of Orion" (2006-08-15). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Toledo. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA08653

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