Although professional and amateur astronomers both target M42, Spitzer’s view reveals new details about the nebula — nearly 2,300 planet-forming disks in the Orion cloud complex.

One of the night sky's grandest sights for binocular users- as well as anyone with a telescope- is the Great Nebula of Orion. Otherwise known as M42, you can actually see this with the unaided eye ...

M43 is part of the much larger Orion Nebula complex, and it lies roughly 10′ north of M42. This section features a hot, bright star (center) that is ionizing the gas near it.

The Orion Nebula (Messier 42) is the nearest star-forming region to Earth. It is located in the Orion Constellation, just below Orion's Belt.

Dark, billowing clouds sweep across a stunning new view of a large star-forming area of the Orion constellation. These dense interstellar clouds of gas and dust comprise a dark nebula, formally ...

The Orion Nebula (also called M42) is one of the most recognizable objects in the entire sky. The middle “star” in Orion’s dagger hanging below his belt, this cloud of gas and dust is so ...

The Orion Nebula, or M42, is visible from most parts of the world from November to February, which is when the constellation of Orion (pictured) is in the night sky.

The Orion nebula, 1,500 light years from Earth and barely visible without binoculars*, sits in the sky just below the three-star belt of the Orion the Hunter constellation, which appears in the ...

The Orion Nebula, or M42 by its Messier designation, is a stellar nursery located 1,340 light years from us. It has a true diameter of about 24 light years and seeing it in a pair of binoculars or ...

LOS ANGELES, CA (FOX 11) - An incredible close-up image of the Orion Nebula was released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) earlier this week. They released a video on YouTube which gives ...