akes on a whole new meaning.
Initially looking at the Orion Nebula in the top image, is just like looking at a single point of light against a dark background. Only under the magnification of a telescope can you see that point, is actually a mass of gaseous cloud, which contains four very bright prominent stars, named the Trapezium.
The next visual difference comes from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) orbiting high above the Earth's distorting atmosphere, where a totally different picture emerges (see image on the left, above). This shows Orion in a previously un
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