Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan—a French geophysicist, astronomer, and chronobiologist—observed the nebulosity around a star near the Orion Nebula in 1731.

This was later named De Mairan’s Nebula and was designated M43. It sits along a great lane of dark debris at the edge of the Orion Nebula.

Nude and portrait photography incorporated in this piece are original. Space telescope images incorporated in this piece are in the public domain, courtesy of NASA and the European Space Agency.

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