The Orion nebula can allegedly be seen with the naked eye. Maybe, with better eyes than I have.
The best view I ever got was in the bush of Zambia, hundreds of miles from the nearest city, and even through strong binoculars it was just a white smudge. This magnificent mosaic, taken in different bands of infrared light by the orbiting WISE observatory, is something else entirely.
Image Credit: WISE, IRSA, NASA; Processing and Copyright : Francesco Antonucci
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