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The blue reflection nebula M78 lies about 1,600 light-years away in Orion. It is a cloud of interstellar gas and dust that owes its luminosity to embedded, bright, blue, early B-type stars — making it the brightest diffuse reflection nebula in the Orion B molecular cloud complex.

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