Approaching a Nebula

[Darth Sidious]

The Milky Way contains many nebulae

http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/anamunn/Astro101/LecturesFraknoi/astro101s08_nebulae_map.html

I'm particularly interested in seeing what the Orion nebula looks like from Betelgeuse or Bellatrix.

I see I guess I must be really old fashioned then
From Wikipedia:
Originally, nebula was a name for any diffuse astronomical object, including galaxies beyond the Milky Way. The Andromeda Galaxy, for instance, was referred to as the Andromeda Nebula (and spiral galaxies in general as "spiral nebulae") before the true nature of galaxies was confirmed in the early 20th century by Vesto Slipher,

Anyway thanks for the correction.

 

[Iain M Norman]

I did know that. Cool.

And yes you must be ancient! *grins*

Many of us are though.

U is old teenager!

There's an Elite Dangerous anagram for every situation

 

[Yaffle]

Isn't it an archaic reason that some are called planetary nebulae, becuase the astronomer at the time (possibly Hubble?) thought they were composed of planets?