M any 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 dark ...

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.

In the Trapezium embedded cluster within the Orion Nebula, young stars shine brightly through dense clouds of gas and dust, located 1,500 light-years away from Earth. Thanks For Reading!

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 ...

NGC 2002: In the middle of this Hubble Space Telescope image, a twinkling group of stars known as Globular star cluster NGC ... of gas and dust in the Orion Nebula’s Trapezium.