Orion Nebula
Orion Nebula
The Orion nebula is one of the Messier object on his list of messier objects. The Messier number of the Orion nebula is M42. As it says in its name it is a nebula. The Orion Nebula is one of the closest stellar regions to the Earth it is been guessed that it is only 1,500 light years away. The Orion Nebula is located in the Orion constellation. The Orion Nebula is also a pretty young star cluster, with an age of less than one million years. It has even been though that some of the younger stars within the cluster are only 300,000 years old. The Orion Nebula does have one of the brightest star clusters in the night sky. It is also a stellar nursery where new stars are being born. This means that new stars are being born there and some people think planets are even being made there. The stars that are formed in the Orion Nebula are part of what astronomers call an "open cluster." When all of the stars are done being born, what will remain is a clump of a few hundred to a thousand stars which are all roughly the same age. These stellar siblings are dominated by a few very massive, very bright stars called the Trapezium. The Trapezium is made up of just a few stars, but it outshines all the rest of them combined. Orion is mostly hydrogen, in both neutral and ionized states, with a fair quantity of dust. It does contain significant amounts of other elements; one of these other elements is oxygen. (Dolan)
Orion is due south and highest in the sky around midnight in middle December. The stars return to the same place in the sky some 4 minutes earlier each night, or 2 hours earlier each month. So look for Orion to be highest up around 10 p.m. in mid-January and 8 p.m. in mid-February. Another time people notice Orion is around the months of August and September, when it appears in the east before dawn. (McClure)
The image I have is from the Hubble telescope and is one site called Hubble Site. The webpage were you can find the image is
The Orion nebula is one of the Messier object on his list of messier objects. The Messier number of the Orion nebula is M42. As it says in its name it is a nebula. The Orion Nebula is one of the closest stellar regions to the Earth it is been guessed that it is only 1,500 light years away. The Orion Nebula is located in the Orion constellation. The Orion Nebula is also a pretty young star cluster, with an age of less than one million years. It has even been though that some of the younger stars within the cluster are only 300,000 years old. The Orion Nebula does have one of the brightest star clusters in the night sky. It is also a stellar nursery where new stars are being born. This means that new stars are being born there and some people think planets are even being made there. The stars that are formed in the Orion Nebula are part of what astronomers call an "open cluster." When all of the stars are done being born, what will remain is a clump of a few hundred to a thousand stars which are all roughly the same age. These stellar siblings are dominated by a few very massive, very bright stars called the Trapezium. The Trapezium is made up of just a few stars, but it outshines all the rest of them combined. Orion is mostly hydrogen, in both neutral and ionized states, with a fair quantity of dust. It does contain significant amounts of other elements; one of these other elements is oxygen. (Dolan)
Orion is due south and highest in the sky around midnight in middle December. The stars return to the same place in the sky some 4 minutes earlier each night, or 2 hours earlier each month. So look for Orion to be highest up around 10 p.m. in mid-January and 8 p.m. in mid-February. Another time people notice Orion is around the months of August and September, when it appears in the east before dawn. (McClure)
The image I have is from the Hubble telescope and is one site called Hubble Site. The webpage were you can find the image is