Wallpaper author:
Rouven Asmußen
12 Jul 2022
M78 - 2-Panel-Mosaic
One of my favorite Deep-Sky-Objects.
M78 is the brightest diffuse reflection nebula of a group of nebulae that includes NGC 2064, NGC 2067 and NGC 2071. This group belongs to the Orion B molecular cloud complex and is about 1,350 light-years distant from Earth (Source: Wikipedia).
Dataset from which the image was processed
M78 Mosaic
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