This week’s small telescope target is the sky’s brightest reflection nebula: M78 in Orion. Through a small telescope at about 120x, you’ll spot an 11th-magnitude star. On either side of this ...
That's why Messier 78 is called a reflection nebula: it reflects and scatters the light of its hidden stars. Now, ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope (VISTA) has sifted through the dust by ...