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 dark ...

In February, the constellation Orion, “the hunter,” dominates the night sky. First ... is the Orion Nebula (M42). This misty patch is the closest region to the solar system where massive ...

Look for the Orion constellation and the Orion Nebula (Messier 42)—our solar system came from that direction." The increased dust from this galactic encounter could have had several effects.

As astronomers scanned the night sky with larger telescopes ... Some were gaseous, star-forming regions, such as the Orion nebula, or M42 – the 42nd object in Messier’s catalog – while ...