There is far more to this Astronomy Picture of Day (posted June 4, 2013) than it's mundane title would suggest. The dynamic haze set in front of the stars is so brilliantly placed, the Orion Nebula more closely resembles a painting in this photo. As I viewed this picture, I didn't really think of it as "the Nebula's glowing gas surrounding hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud" (description exert). When reaching the end of its caption, it was somewhat sad to be informed that the whole Orion Nebula cloud complex will disperse over the next 100,000 years.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130604.html
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