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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

The nebula is located about 1,300 lightyears from Earth and is about 24 lightyears across. It contains close to 700 stars or stars forming within the nebula. Do an internet search of “Orion ...

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

The eVscope 2 will get your Dad viewing the wonders of the cosmos in no time. Just find the target in the app, sit back and enjoy interstellar views all night long.

The Orion Nebula is located just 1,350 light-years away from Earth. Because of its relative closeness to Earth, the star-bearing nebula has been a study point for astronomers for decades.

This is a great time to view the constellation Orion the Hunter, because it is almost directly south in the early evening sky. What makes Orion noteworthy is: its size; it has a lot of bright ...

the great russian telescope.; the glories of saturn, jupiter, and the great nebula of orion as revealed through it. share full article. march 25, 1883.