Orion and Canis Minor constellations and Sirius above horizon on a cold winter night. (Image credit: Eerik/Getty Images) The Great Orion Nebula is a vast cloud of extremely tenuous glowing gas and ...

IT is a fortunate circumstance for students of nebular astronomy that within a short time that branch of science has been enriched by a monograph and a photograph, each perfect in its way, of one ...

Of course, when you study the Orion nebula with a 6.5-meter-wide space telescope tuned to infrared light, ... And it’s a great reminder that the sky is full of such puzzles, ...

LAST evening (March 7) I succeeded in obtaining a photograph of the spectrum of the great nebula in Orion, extending from a little below F to beyond M in the ultra-violet.

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 ...

The Orion Nebula is a region of star formation 1,350 ... we often waited with great anticipation for each ‘YAMOO’ — Yet Another Map Of Orion — because of the remarkable and ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Great Nebula in Orion ” in SA Supplements Vol. 29 No. 738supp (February 1890), p. 11798 doi:10.1038 ...

NASA pointed out, the Mayans called it the "Cosmic Fire of Creation." That’s an appropriate name as it is a stellar nursery.

Star Gazers 1 Min #1404M" Jan 27 - Feb 2,2014 "The Great Orion Nebula" ...