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02/03/2026

Astronomy - THE DUSTY SURROUNDINGS OF ORION AND THE PLEIADES


 The Dusty Surroundings of Orion and the Pleiades

Image Credit & Copyright: Ignacio Fernández

Explanation: How well do you know the night sky? OK, but how well can you identify famous sky objects in a very deep image? Either way, here is a test: see if you can find some well-known night-sky icons in a deep image filled with filaments of normally faint dust and gas. This image contains the Pleiades star clusterBarnard's LoopOrion NebulaAldebaranBetelgeuseWitch Head NebulaEridanus Loop, and the California Nebula. To find their real locations, here is an annotated image version. The reason this task might be difficult is similar to the reason it is initially hard to identify familiar constellations in a very dark sky: the tapestry of our night sky has an extremely deep hidden complexity. The featured composite reveals some of this complexity in a 16 hours of sky exposure in dark skies over GranadaSpain.

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Astronomy - THE DUSTY SURROUNDINGS OF ORION AND THE PLEIADES

  The Dusty Surroundings of Orion and the Pleiades Image Credit & Copyright:  Ignacio Fernández Explanation:  How well do you know the n...