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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
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                                 2025 November 20   
      
                             Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka   
                     Image Credit & Copyright: Aygen Erkaslan   
      
      Explanation: Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka are the bright bluish stars   
      from east to west (upper right to lower left) along the diagonal in   
      this cosmic vista. Otherwise known as the Belt of Orion, these three   
      blue supergiant stars are hotter and much more massive than the Sun.   
      They lie from 700 to 2,000 light-years away, born of Orion's   
      well-studied interstellar clouds. In fact, clouds of gas and dust   
      adrift in this region have some surprisingly familiar shapes, including   
      the dark Horsehead Nebula and Flame Nebula near Alnitak at the upper   
      right. The famous Orion Nebula itself is off the right edge of this   
      colorful starfield. The telescopic frame spans almost 4 degrees on the   
      sky.   
      
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