In which direction is the Orion Nebula located in the sky?

Orion, with its huge area and numerous celestial bodies, has always been called "the king of constellations".

There are many bright stars and deep space objects in Orion, and the Orion Nebula is a very familiar one.

So, where is the Orion Nebula in the sky? Let's have a look.

The Great Orion Nebula (M42, NGC 1976) is a reflection nebula and a diffusion nebula located in Orion. It is a very young celestial body. There are not only many young stars here, but also many pre-stellar celestial bodies. Most of the stars in the Orion Nebula were formed 2 million to 3 million years ago, and their actual age is less than one thousandth of that of the sun and the earth.

Orion Nebula is a blue-white hazy gas cloud, located in the middle of Orion sword, just south of Orion's third star belt. It is only visible to the naked eye. The nebula is connected to a star-forming region and is illuminated by the young stars it contains. The four particularly bright stars in its center are called Orion quadrilateral poly stars, which are the hottest and most massive stars in the whole nebula. The light of these four stars illuminates the nebula, just like a flash lamp illuminates a cave, and the nebula shines through it, so it is called the emission nebula.

Orion Nebula is one of the most important objects photographed by astrophotography enthusiasts and large telescopes of the Observatory. For astronomy enthusiasts, it is a deep space object worth seeing: it can be watched with small telescopes or binoculars; For astronomers, this nebula is a hot research object, pointing to it from the large ground telescope on earth to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in space.

Conclusion: Looking at Orion nebula with ordinary binoculars is like a firebird spreading its wings and flying, so it is also called "firebird nebula" and "flame nebula", but it is not commonly used. When shooting scattered deep space objects such as Orion Nebula, we should pay attention to weather with good atmospheric transparency and places with less light pollution.