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...hem we find not only the North Star, but also lovely galaxies, a planetary nebula, and the spot where the Hubble Space Telescope took its Hubble Deep Field ( <center>Owl Nebula (M97)</center>

...posure -- short by astronomical standards, but just long enough to get the nebula without completely saturating the bright stars. He took 4 images through 4 Tarantula Nebula - NGC 2070 - Red Light "R" Filter

...because we live in one, the Milky Way galaxy. The Sun lies near the small Orion Arm or "Spur", and between the Satittarius and Perseus Arms. Spiral arms of ...galaxies just 30 to 100 light years across, not much bigger than the Orion nebula, whereas today our Milky Way galaxy is 100,000 light years across.

...loud that forms the familiar shape and blocks our view of stars behind the nebula, is dust, mostly made of carbon. Exaggerated magenta-colored ionized hydrogen in the Horsehead Nebula

Alnitak, the easternmost star in Orion's Belt The first stars looked like Alnitak in Orion's belt, only 100's of times more massive, a million times brighter, and lac

Alnitak is a beautiful star by the Horsehead nebula ...n here in the [http://www.deepfield.at/gallery/barnard_33_3.html Horsehead nebula], are type O stars.