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Quoting: Anonymous Coward 763977It's not a bad question at all. Here's my answer in short form; worlwide telescope and google sky both suck. They're free, they're widely known and publicized, and neither one is anywhere near adequate for this kind of research. Always, always, always look to the primary source of the material. Here are the palomar sky survey images for those coordinates: [ link to archive.stsci.edu] [ link to archive.stsci.edu] [ link to archive.stsci.edu] There's clearly nothing of significance there in the sky survey images. Note though how much more detail you can see in the original images than in google's and microsoft's watered-down mosaics. It's the same story with every sky survey image of those coordinates you can find, with the notable exception of hydrogen-alpha narrowband images; those show a huge bubble of nebulosity in that area, but it covers the entire region around Orion, not just that one splotch. There's nothing in any sky survey that corresponds to that splotch, yet the images for worldwide telescope were made directly from those sky surveys. Neither google nor microsoft did their own survey, they just took the images from previously-completed surveys and stitched them all together into a giant mosaic. It's a processing error on microsoft's side, which is also why it's unique to microsoft's software. Google and microsoft have their own proprietary ways of handling the data, and neither one are perfect. You must go to the original sky surveys to see what comes up. stsci is one, here's another good link for canvasing a lot of sky surveys at once: [ link to skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov]
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