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"Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like the Orion Nebula. Also known as M42, the nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot
young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1,500 light-years away. The Orion Nebula offers one of
the best opportunities to study how stars are born partly because it is the nearest large star-forming region, but also because
the nebula's energetic stars have blown away obscuring gas and dust clouds that would otherwise block our view - providing an
intimate look at a range of ongoing stages of starbirth and evolution. " APOD: 2006 January 19 - Orion Nebula, The Hubble View
young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1,500 light-years away. The Orion Nebula offers one of
the best opportunities to study how stars are born partly because it is the nearest large star-forming region, but also because
the nebula's energetic stars have blown away obscuring gas and dust clouds that would otherwise block our view - providing an
intimate look at a range of ongoing stages of starbirth and evolution. " APOD: 2006 January 19 - Orion Nebula, The Hubble View
M42