#Astrophotographer Stéphane Guisard took this remarkable picture of #Orion rising over the Temple of Kukulkan in the #ancient #Maya city of #Chichen #Itza. The temple is 30 meters high, a #monument to the architectural savvy of the Maya. In Orion you can see the orange glow of Betelegeuse, bright blue Rigel, and the fuzzy pink glow of the Orion #Nebula below the belt, a star-forming nebula over 1,000 light years away.
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