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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                  2022 January 11   
      
                        Orion's Belt Region in Gas and Dust   
        Image Credit & Copyright: Matt Harbison (Space4Everybody), Marathon   
                            Remote Imaging Observatory   
      
      Explanation: You may have seen Orion's belt before -- but not like   
      this. The three bright stars across this image are, from left to right,   
      Mintaka, Alnilam, and Alnitak: the iconic belt stars of Orion. The rest   
      of the stars in the frame have been digitally removed to highlight the   
      surrounding clouds of glowing gas and dark dust. Some of these clouds   
      have intriguing shapes, including the Horsehead and Flame Nebulas, both   
      near Alnitak on the lower right. This deep image, taken last month from   
      the Marathon Skypark and Observatory in Marathon, Texas, USA, spans   
      about 5 degrees, required about 20 hours of exposure, and was processed   
      to reveal the gas and dust that we would really see if we were much   
      closer. The famous Orion Nebula is off to the upper right of this   
      colorful field. The entire region lies only about 1,500 light-years   
      distant and so is one of the closest and best studied star formation   
      nurseries known.   
      
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