{"id":814187,"date":"2026-10-26T07:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T07:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814187\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T07:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T07:02:10","slug":"2026-october-26-m42-the-great-nebula-in-orion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814187\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 October 26 &#8211; M42: The Great Nebula in Orion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p-md margin-0 media-detail-hero__description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExplanation: The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orion_Nebula\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Great Nebula in Orion<\/a>, an immense, nearby <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/hubble\/science\/science-highlights\/exploring-the-birth-of-stars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">starbirth region<\/a>, is one the most famous of all <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/universe\/stories\/quick-reads\/decoding-nebulae\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">astronomical nebulas<\/a>. Here, glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2010-october-23-orion-head-to-toe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">immense<\/a> interstellar <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2023-january-29-barnard-68-dark-molecular-cloud\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">molecular cloud<\/a> only 1500 <a href=\"http:\/\/chandra.harvard.edu\/photo\/cosmic_distance.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">light-years<\/a> away. In the featured deep image in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LRGB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">assigned colors<\/a> highlighted by emission in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lanl.gov\/science-engineering\/periodic-table\/element\/hydrogen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hydrogen<\/a>, wisps and sheets of <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-1999-may-09-fractal-interstellar-dust-up-close\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dust<\/a> and gas are particularly evident. The <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2015-november-4-the-great-orion-nebula-m42\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Great Nebula in Orion<\/a> can be found with the <a href=\"https:\/\/c.tenor.com\/JhvJXq30yA4AAAAC\/tenor.gif\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unaided eye<\/a> near the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2008-october-15-camera-orion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">easily identifiable<\/a> belt of three stars in the popular <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/constellations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">constellation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orion_%28constellation%29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orion<\/a>. In addition to housing a bright <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_cluster\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">open cluster<\/a> of stars known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2018-august-5-trapezium-at-the-heart-of-orion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trapezium<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2013-february-13-infrared-orion-from-wise\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orion Nebula<\/a> contains many <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/universe\/stars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stellar nurseries<\/a>. These nurseries contain much <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MMB2VR0087w\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hydrogen<\/a> gas, hot young stars, <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-1996-october-17-proplyds-infant-solar-systems\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">proplyds<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2013-march-24-dust-pillar-of-the-carina-nebula\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stellar jets<\/a> spewing material at high speeds. Also known as <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2w8wwUqC4Xc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">M42<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-1998-april-21-water-from-orion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orion Nebula<\/a> spans about 40 <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/light-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">light years<\/a> and is located in the same <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2008-june-6-two-armed-spiral-milky-way\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spiral arm<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasoftheuniverse.com\/galaxy.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our Galaxy<\/a> as the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/sun\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s picture: open space\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Explanation: The Great Nebula in Orion, an immense, nearby starbirth region, is one the most famous of all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[238382,90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-814187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-apod","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}