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Who discovered the Orion Nebula with a telescope?
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The Cat's Eye Nebula.
The Orion Nebula was discovered using a telescope in 1610 by the French scholar Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc. It was later discovered independently in 1618 by the Swiss astronomer Johann Cysat.12