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Messier 42

The Great Orion Nebula (lower) is one of the few visible to the naked eye. It is so bright that I only needed 100 minutes of exposure to capture this on a color CCD. It is 24 ly across, and about 1350 ly distant. Set above it is the Running Man Nebula.

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Uploaded on March 16, 2012
Taken on March 15, 2012