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Explanation:
Do you recognize this constellation?
Through the icicles and past the mountains is
Orion, one of the most identifiable star groupings on the sky and an icon familiar
to humanity for over 30,000 years.
Orion has
looked pretty much the same during the past 50,000 years and should continue
to look the same for many thousands of years into the future.
Orion is quite prominent in the sky this time of year,
a recurring sign of (modern) winter in Earth's northern hemisphere and summer in
the south.
Pictured, Orion was captured recently above the
Austrian
Alps in a composite of seven images taken
by the same camera in the same location during the same night.
Below and slightly to the right of
Orion's three-star belt is the
Orion Nebula,
while the four bright stars surrounding the belt are, clockwise from the upper left,
Betelgeuse,
Bellatrix,
Rigel, and
Saiph.
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