Many know the Great Orion Nebula (M42) in Orion’s Sword as a bright diffuse nebula — a glowing cloud of cosmic gas illuminated by the Trapezium star cluster. But the Orion Nebula also has a ...

This week’s small telescope target is the magnificent Orion Nebula, also known as M42. And although for this podcast I’ve categorized it as a “small telescope” target, you can spot this ...

Their conclusions are based on new simulations of some 1500 stars in the Orion Trapezium star cluster some 1300 light ... and is known to astronomers as M42, the Orion Nebula.

Messier 42 better known as the Orion Nebula, with the unaided eye from a dark sky site. Appearing like glistening precious stones, M42’s Trapezium cluster, named for the trapezoidal arrangement of its ...

Infrared images of the Orion Nebula covering 5′ × 5′, obtained with J ... suggesting a fairly large number of young brown dwarfs existing in the Trapezium cluster. Several new features around the ...

Detailed descriptions of the Orion Nebula started appearing later in the 17th century, and it has been a popular target for anyone with a telescope ever since. Also known as NGC 1976, Messier 42, M42, ...

NASA’s powerful Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope combined to captured stunning images of the Orion Nebula ... collectively known as the “Trapezium.” Meanwhile, Spitzer ...

Thousands upon thousands of stars illuminate this breathtaking image of star cluster Liller 1 ... A few young stars shine through dense clouds of gas and dust in the Orion Nebula’s Trapezium embedded ...