# Orion Nebula on SpaceSphere

> A cloud of gas and dust where new stars are being formed, and the closest large star forming region to us.

Canonical: https://spacesphere.sygnito.com/en/universe/orion-nebula

Nebula. The catalogue that supplied this record classes it as a star cluster with nebulosity.

A cloud of gas and dust where new stars are being formed, and the closest large star forming region to us.

## Facts

- **Position**: 83.81867, -5.38967 (Source: NASA Extragalactic Database)
- **Brightness**: about 4 (Source: OpenNGC)
- **Apparent size**: about 90 x 60 arcminutes (Source: OpenNGC)
- **Constellation**: Orion (Source: OpenNGC)
- **Catalogue name**: Great Orion Nebula (Source: OpenNGC)

## Catalogue designations

NGC1976, M42, LBN 974, MWSC 0582

Source: OpenNGC

## Can you see it tonight?

The page works this out in the visitor's browser, from their own location, and the answer is a prediction rather than an observation. It is not part of this file.

## Sources

- This research has made use of the [NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database](https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/), which is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and operated by the California Institute of Technology.
- [OpenNGC](https://github.com/mattiaverga/OpenNGC), Mattia Verga, licensed [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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