M42, The Great Orion Nebula

M42 is a huge, bright nebula, located in the constellation Orion, you can see this deep space object with binoculars. This video includes instructions for locating M42 in the night sky. This dramatic object is a stellar nursery, the glow from 100's of new stars illuminate the molecular cloud. The video also includes a discussion of star formation.

[nateteano]

Wow, I used to look on those stars when I was in philippines, didn't know 1 of them are orion nebula, amazing

[fastwalker]

Thank you for explaining the physics of gravitational attraction and the formation of celestial bodies. It is very helpful in understanding how Stellar objects are created.

[mbiftikhar]

Thank you for this knowledge, it was easy for us newbies to grasp the technical stuff. Liked, subscribed and shared as well. I always have been intrigued in the stars that you mentioned as i used to contemplate of what it meant. Thank you Sir and Thanks to youtube. God bless.

[freddyacosta]

Got my telescope and adapter for my dslr. Waiting for a clear sky tomorrow night and take pictures. Also located where Andromeda (M31) is, of course I have to take a long exposure pictures to get a better image of them.

[amrikjohal]

This is a factory of making the new stars.thanks

[denpamori]

that thing might look tiny but its actually 12 light years across

[Starbuckin]

The LORD made Orion and everything else!!!

[heven]

Thanks for all of your awesome videos!

[robinj.]

I found out some years ago that; with no Moon, no city lights and your eyes fully dark adapted, my 6 inch Newtonian gave a great view!
But it never shows the kind of color you have here. To me it always seems to show a very mild, pastel green color!

[aduffy]

Incredible video learned so much thanks for sharing

[kingdom]

That picture from Hubble is totally amazing, the beautiful colour and detail
is a photographers dream. !!

[gamings]

Wow, this video is really helpful to locate Orion nebula 😍😍

[IIIRotor]

Imagine your potential, should you be a grain of sand, to find yourself in such a cloud of atoms...

[cemper]

1:34 What´s red in the upper left corner ??

[CJ-vujg]

Orion is always visible in Saturday and Sunday here in Philippines

[astronomer-]

In January, February and March, the constellation Orion rises after the Sun set. In June, July, August and October, it'll be visible during daytime and in November, it'll rise before midnight.

[Magnum]

87 times. "When the metallicity is very low, however, a recent study of the faintest stars found that the minimum star size seems to be about 8.3% of the solar mass, or about 87 times the mass of Jupiter" [from wiki's page "stellar mass"]

[andreapatane]

This rules, LOL. I saw a nebula just like this one on TV.

[Mezase]

I bought my first telescope today and even though I had to fight against the evil clouds I managed to look at this beauty with 54X (Using a Skywatcher Heritage 130p and a 12mm eyepiece).

[dec]

Interesting video. It's the forces at the centre of a star generated from its own weight that starts the nuclear fusion, not the temperature. On earth, the temperature has to be 10 million degrees Celsius to start nuclear fusion as we can't replicate the gravity