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I keep seeing people call the Orion Nebula a galaxy in photo comments and it drives me nuts
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jamesc7910d ago
Guess they skipped the day in school where they covered the difference between a cloud and a whole city of stars. Next they'll be calling the sun a planet.
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kelly47010d ago
Saw a video last week where someone called it the "Orion Galaxy". It's a NEBULA, a big cloud of gas where stars are born, inside our OWN Milky Way. A galaxy is a whole system of billions of stars. The mix-up is so common it's wild. Feels like basic space facts are just getting lost sometimes.
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