‘Mesmerizing, captivating’: NASA’s latest post on Orion Nebula mesmerises netizens

The picture also features the Orion Bar, a ridge-like feature of gas and dust within the spectacular stellar nursery.

Because of its brightness and prominent location just below Orion’s belt, the nebula, also known as M42 can be spotted with the naked eye, NASA wrote, in a blog post.

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Since being shared, the post has managed to garner almost a million likes.