The Great Orion Nebula
The Winter sky is full of amazing sights, but many consider the Orion Nebula (M42) to be the crowning jewel. Forming the sheath hanging off of Orion’s famous three-star belt, this nebula is one of the brightest deep-sky objects in the entire sky and is nothing short of stunning in binoculars and telescopes of any size, especially when viewed from a dark remote site.
Even more detail is revealed in the cloudy structure through long-exposure astrophotography. Check out this incredible video from AstroBackyard as he documents the process of capturing the nebula in great detail.
NASA has created a 3D fly-through of the Orion Nebula based on data captured with the Hubble Space Telescope, check it out here:
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