It's most readily identifiable dusty realms lie between the bright central Huygens region and the neighboring De Mairan's Nebula (M43). The latter is actually part of the same gas cloud that ...

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, French mathematician Jean-Jacques D’Ortous de ...