Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people

— Carl Sagan

Orion Nebula

Orion Nebula

NGC 1976:    151 Ha images combined, false color, crop image, taken from Whiting, NJ,  January 5, 2010 at  00:30 am. following a night of observation and imaging of M81