Running Man and the Great Orion
Nebula: This part of the region needs no further introduction.
They are the sword of the Orion.
The Great
Orion nebula is approximately 1,350 light years away and
estimated to be 24 light-years across. It has a mass of about
2,000 times that of the Sun. It appears as the middle "star"
in the sword of the constellation Orion. At only 2 million
years old, the nebula is an ideal laboratory for studying
young stars and stars that are still forming. It offers a
glimpse of what might have happened when the Sun was born 4.6
billion years ago.
Running
Man Nebula – NGC 1977 or Sh2-279 – is a reflection nebula that
can be found in the Orion constellation, 1,460 lightyears
away. It’s located along the sword of Orion, north of the
Orion Nebula, and is known as the Running Man Nebula because
many observers think it bears a resemblance to a human figure
running with its arms in motion. |
