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.

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 ...