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4 photos and 1 illustration tagged orionnebula, from 3 members of Flickr Commons.

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Tags that often appear on the same photos & illustrations:

• stars
• space
• galaxy
• cosmos
• chandra
• smithsonianinstitution
• smithsonianastrophysicalobservatory
• bldigital
• date1866
• pubplaceparis
• publicdomain
• sysnum002161070
• liaisemmanuel
• large
• vol0
• page89
• mechanicalcurator
• imagesfrombook002161070
• imagesfromvolume0021610700
• spectroscopy
• betelgeuse
• aldebaran
• sirius
• rigel

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• NASA on The Commons 2 photos & illustrations
• Smithsonian Institution 2 photos & illustrations
• British Library 1 photo / illustration

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Orion Nebula: Peering into the Orion Nebula

from Smithsonian Institution

• sofia_rodriguez said:

  Really good!

• hannesseibt said:

  Thats huge...great one!

• lane_connie said:

  these are sooo cool! i love outer space pictures!

• duiceburger said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called NASA - Public Domain, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• Lilia Sarah Maria Patterson said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called beautifulgorgeousgamilaharikabellissima, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

British Library digitised image from page 89 of "L'Espace céleste et la nature tropicale, description physique de l'univers ... préface de M. Babinet, dessins de Yan' Dargent"

from British Library

• astronomy_blog said:

  The caption reads: "Spectres Sidéraux: 1) Soleil 2) α Orion 3) Aldébaran 4) Sirius 5) Rigel 6) Pollux 7) Nébuleuse d'Orion". The star α Orion is also known as Betelgeuse. I wrote a blog post about this image and spectroscopy at www.strudel.org.uk/blog/astro/001041.shtml