Portal:Astronomy/Picture/8 July 2005

The Orion Nebula is one of the most famous objects in the night sky. It has been known since antiquity, and can easily be seen in the constellation of Orion as a fuzzy patch below Orion's Belt (above the Belt for southern hemisphere observers. The nebula contains one of the most active star formation regions known, with an open cluster of thousands of stars being formed within it.