January 2018: Picture of the Month

Happy New Year everybody! To begin the year we’re doing something a little different. This month’s image is taken by Afsheen Rane, an amateur astronomer at University of Toronto. Photographed is the Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42) which is around 1300 light years away from Earth. Its brightness allows it to be visible to the naked eye in the night sky and makes it a popular choice amongst amateur astronomers to observe.