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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                   2023 March 10   
      
                             Orion and the Running Man   
                      Image Credit & Copyright: Abraham Jones   
      
      Explanation: Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like The Great   
      Nebula in Orion. Visible as a faint celestial smudge to the naked-eye,   
      the nearest large star-forming region sprawls across this sharp   
      telescopic image, recorded on a cold January night in dark skies from   
      West Virginia, planet Earth. Also known as M42, the Orion Nebula's   
      glowing gas surrounds hot, young stars. About 40 light-years across, it   
      lies at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1,500   
      light-years away within the same spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy as   
      the Sun. Along with dusty bluish reflection nebula NGC 1977 and friends   
      near the top of the frame, the eye-catching nebulae represent only a   
      small fraction of our galactic neighborhood's wealth of star-forming   
      material. Within the well-studied stellar nursery, astronomers have   
      also identified what appear to be numerous infant solar systems.   
      
                           Tomorrow's picture: 3D Bennu   
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