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by rcdavison
Thu Mar 22, 2018 3:00 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Camera Orion (2018 Mar 21)
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Re: APOD: Camera Orion (2018 Mar 21)

"Orion's belt are three stars all about 1,500 light-years..." From a previous post on APOD (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap171123.html) the distance of the belt stars was listed at from 800 - 1500 light-years, which coincides with an article I did showing the constellation in profile illustr...