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Honestly, the amount of people who think the Orion Nebula is a star is kind of wild
Tbh, I saw it again last night at the local star party and three different people asked which bright star it was. Has anyone else run into this a lot?
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lucasgarcia1mo ago
Guess they skipped the cloudy part in astronomy class.
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lee_barnes7013d ago
My first look at it through a telescope was at Cherry Springs last summer, and yeah @uma896 definitely right that it's a total game changer. I was one of those people calling it a star until I actually saw the gas and dust with my own eyes.
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uma8961mo ago
Oh man, does it count if I was one of those people like five years ago? I pointed at it and called it a big star and my friend just gave me the most disappointed look. I felt so silly when they handed me the binoculars and it was just this huge fuzzy cloud. We all start somewhere, right?
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