M78 and Reflecting Dust Clouds in Orion

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

Adventures of a Mathematician, by S. M. Ulam (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1976).

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