... One of the brightest, M78, is centered in this colorful, wide field view, covering an area north of Orion's belt. ... If you could go far away from the Earth and look around the entire sky -- what would you see? ... For reasons unknown, star V838 Mon's outer surface suddenly greatly expanded with the result that it became the brightest star in the entire Milky Way Galaxy in January 2002. ... Shiny NGC 253 Galaxy, is one of the brightest spiral galaxies visible, and also one of the dustiest. ...