Great Nebula in Orion (NGC 1976 - M42), 16 November 1898. Photographed at the Lick Observatory, San Jose, California, USA. The nebula, which is 1600 light years from Earth, was first discovered by a French lawyer, Nicholas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, in 1610.
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