Parting Shot
Photo by Philip Griffin ’20
This true color image, captured with the new Knox Observatory in early February 2021, shows a region of space just below the belt in the constellation of Orion including both the Running Man Nebula (left) and the Orion Nebula (right), each around 1500 light years away. Nine individual image panels were stitched together to form this mosaic, which spans a field of view of just under two full moon diameters from left to right.