Visible to the naked eye under dark skies, the Orion Nebula has been studied throughout ... but the spectrum of light from ...

Easily visible to the naked eye, with a magnitude of 4. , where new stars are being born from the gas and dust. The intense ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents a visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust. The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars ...

Just 1,500 light-years away, the Orion Nebula is visible to the unaided eye below the three stars that form the "belt" in the constellation Orion. The nebula is home to hundreds of newborn stars ...

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The Orion Nebula. Credit: NASA ... The red hue is evidence of ionized hydrogen, which gives off visible light at a wavelength ...

Many know the Great Orion ... Nebula (M43). The latter is actually part of the same gas cloud that comprises M42; it only appears isolated due to intervening lanes of cosmic dust blocking the ...

NASA’s powerful Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope combined to captured stunning images of the Orion ... 1,500 light-years away. Hubble’s ultraviolet and visible-light view ...

Herschel, which viewed the heavens in infrared light, launched ... 153 has emitted is brightly visible as it plows into the surrounding gas and dust of the Orion Nebula." HOPS 153's jet and ...