Many know the Great Orion Nebula (M42) in Orion’s Sword as a bright diffuse ... region and the neighboring De Mairan’s Nebula (M43). The latter is actually part of the same gas cloud that ...
M42 ranks as the sky’s second-brightest ... Only 0.1° north-northeast of the Orion Nebula’s center lies M43 (NGC 1982). It is often called De Mairan’s Nebula in honor of its discoverer ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, the Orion Nebula (Messier 42, M42). Just 1,500 light-years away ...