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M42

Orion Nebula

Cluster with nebulosity · Orion · RA 05ʰ35ᵐ16ˢ · Dec -05°23′23″

mag 4.0 · 90′ × 60′

Also known as NGC 1976Messier 42M42M 42

Catalog data: OpenNGC by Mattia Verga and contributors — CC-BY-SA 4.0. Adapted to slug format and merged with manual catalog seed.

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Sky map by Aladin Lite / CDS Strasbourg. Imagery from DSS2 (STScI, ESO, ROE, AAO).