Astronomy Picture of the Week – The Orion Nebula
This is an awesome picture of the Orion Nebula taken by the Hubble Telescope.
The Orion Nebula is located 1,500 light-years away from Earth. Astronomers believe it contains over a thousand young stars.
Credits: NASA
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Paul Tomaszewski
Paul Tomaszewski is a science & tech writer as well as a programmer and entrepreneur. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of CosmoBC. He has a degree in computer science from John Abbott College, a bachelor's degree in technology from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, and completed some business and economics classes at Concordia University in Montreal. In his spare time he is an amateur astronomer and enjoys reading or watching science-fiction. You can follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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