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Messier 78, Bob Birket
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Messier 78

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Messier 78

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M78 is a cloud of intersteller dust that belongs to the Orion Molecular cloud complex which is about 1,600 light years distant from Earth. It is the brightest diffuse reflection nebula of a group of nebulae that include NGC 2064, NGC 2067 and NGC 2071.

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Messier 78, Bob Birket