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Orion Nebula
Title: Orion Nebula
Category: Science & Technology
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Orion Nebula
The Orion Nebula contains one of the brightest star clusters in the night sky. With a magnitude of 4, this nebula is easily visible from the Northern Hemisphere during the winter months. It is surprising, therefore, that this region was not documented until 1610 by a French lawyer named Nicholas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc. On March 4, 1769, Charles Messier inducted the Orion Nebula, M42, into his list of stellar objects. Then, in 1771, Messier released his list of objects for …showed first 75 words of 1059 total…
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Endnotes
1University of Cambridge. Cambridge Astronomy Dictionary. Fourth Edition. Page 121.
2R.C. Bless. Discovering the Cosmos. Page 189.
3Sky & Telescope. Protoplanetary Possibilities in the Trapezium. Volume 88, Number 4.
4Sky & Telescope. Protoplanetary Possibilities in the Trapezium. Volume 88, Number 4.
5Press Release. Destruction of Protoplanetary Disks in Orion’s Trapezium Explained.
6Elizabeth Manning. Water Among the Stars. ABCNews. April 9, 1998 (excerpt from Astrophysical
Journal Letters).
7Elizabeth Manning. Water Among the Stars. ABCNews. April 9, 1998 (excerpt from Astrophysical
Journal Letters).
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