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October 2, 1996
Orion's Horsehead Nebula
Credit: Photograph made from plates taken with the
UK Schmidt Telescope.
Colour photography by David Malin.
Copyright: Anglo-Australian Telescope Board
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry
Bonnell (USRA)
NASA Technical Rep.:
Jay Norris.
Specific rights apply.
A service of:
LHEA
at
NASA/
GSFC
&:
Michigan Tech. U.