Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc 1581 1637 French antiquary and humanist Discoverer of the Orion Nebula 1610 Engraved by C Mellan

Detail of the top of the Orion Eden Hotel, formerly the Eden Theatre, an Art Deco building located on the Praça dos Restauradores. Lisbon, Portugal.

Orion Nebula 15 mosaic field that covers part of the sky Photo taken by the Huble telescope November 20th 1995 TELESCOPE INSTITUTE BALTIMORE NASA

The constellation of Orion in the sky at dawn above the Hariti Mandir temple, dedicated to the goddess of smallpox, worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists, Swayambhunath, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

Orion in sky at dawn above triple roofed pagoda temple in foreground and Indrapur temple to the right, Durbar Square, Kathmandu, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Nepal, Asia

Swayambhunath Swayambhu Monkey Temple Buddhist stupa on a hill overlooking Kathmandu, taken at dawn with Orion in the sky behind the prayer flags, Kathmandu, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Nepal, Asia

The constellation of Orion, in sky at bottom right and the five tiered pagoda roof of the Kumbeshwar temple, dating from 1392, one of two five tiered temples in the valley. Patan, Kathmandu Valley, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Nepal, Asia