[spankalib]

...since it was first officially discovered in 1610

Mrrrmh??

Job 9:9
Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

Job 38:31
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

Amos 5:8
Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

[Red Badger]

Although we've been staring at the nebula since it was first officially discovered in 1610, however, we've not unraveled all its secrets.

[Jim W N]

Good one Spanky.

[xp38]

The biblical references are to stars and their groupings that are visible to the naked eye at night. The orion nebula discovery would have been done by early telescopes in 1610. Stuff you cannot detect by eyesight alone. Same could be said about the far side of the moon. It always existed but until we sent probes and spacecraft to orbit around the moon and finally saw the craters and formations that made it up we never knew what was there.