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 night, Orion and the M42 nebula were ... the most beautiful nebula in the whole night sky. I never get tired viewing it. Look for the four bright stars called the Trapezium in the brightest ...

This image shows a short-wavelength NIRCam mosaic of the inner Orion Nebula and Trapezium Cluster ... Pearson Also known as Messier 42, the Orion nebula is located just to the south of the ...

also known as Messier 42. Located to the south of Orion’s belt, the Orion Nebula is one of several star-forming cosmic bodies and includes the young Trapezium Cluster of stars near its core.

Francisco Javier Pérez Olvera, taken from Mixquiahuala, Hidalgo, Mexico This wide-field view captures a broad swath of the ...

New images of the Orion Nebula from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have been included in ESA's ESASky application, which has a user-friendly interface to visualize and download ...

The inner region of the Orion Nebula as seen by both the Spitzer Space Telescope (left) and the James Webb Space Telescope (right). Both images were recorded with a filter that is particularly ...

The Orion Nebula, also known by its sky catalogue name of M42, is the nearest, large star-forming region to Earth. Along with the quartet of bright suns at its centre called the Trapezium ...

At just 1,400 light-years from Earth, the Orion Nebula, M42, is visible to the naked eye as a faint smudge. Source: NASA ...

One of the brightest nebulae in the night sky is Messier 42, the Orion Nebula, located south of Orion’s belt. At its core is the young Trapezium Cluster of stars, the most massive of which ...