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As the Orion Nebula was the 42nd object in his list, it became identified as M42. Henry Draper's 1880 photograph of the Orion Nebula, the first ever taken. One of Andrew Ainslie Common's 1883 photographs of the Orion Nebula, the first to show that a long exposure could record new stars and nebulae invisible to the human eye.
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A labeled map of the Orion molecular cloud, with the images taken by IRAS and various telescopes that mapped CO in this part of the sky. The following is a list of notable regions within the larger complex: Orion A molecular cloud The Orion Nebula, also known as M42 (part of Orion's Sword) M43, which is part of the Orion Nebula
Proplyds in the Orion Nebula. A proplyd, short for ionized protoplanetary disk, is an externally illuminated photoevaporating protoplanetary disk around a young star.Nearly 180 proplyds have been discovered in the Orion Nebula. [1]
The Orion Nebula, mosaiced from 520 Hubble photos Same image, 9x larger. Full size comparison from the original to the right and the 9x larger version to the left. Click to see full size.(The closeup is of the bright blue star on the lower right) Edit 1 by Fir0002 - how's that for supersaturation!
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has revealed the sharpest images yet of a portion of a horse-shaped nebula, showing the “mane” in finer detail. The Horsehead Nebula, in the constellation Orion ...
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DALLAS (AP) — NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has revealed the sharpest images yet of a portion of a horse-shaped nebula, showing the “mane” in finer detail. The Horsehead Nebula, in the constellation Orion, is 1,300 light-years away. A light-year is nearly 6 trillion miles (9.7 trillion kilometers).