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The Great Nebula in Orion

author: Sebastian Voltmer/Novapix

reference: a-neb19-76022

Image Size 300 DPI: 23 * 17 cm

The Orion Nebula is the greatest of all HII clouds visible from our location within the Milky Way. With a gaseous repository of 10,000 suns, and illuminated by a cluster of hot young stars, the clouds of M42 glow with fantastic colors and shapes, giving us a birds eye view of one of the greatest star forming nurseries in our part of the galaxy. At a distance of 1500 light years, the Orion nebula is the nearest star-forming region to the Sun.

Keywords for this photo:

ASTRONOMY - DIFFUSE NEBULA - EMISSION NEBULA - M42 - M43 - NEBULA - NGC 1973 - NGC 1975 - NGC 1976 - NGC 1977 - NGC 1982 - ORION - REFLECTION NEBULA - STAR - STAR FORMATION - YOUNG STAR -