M43

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke6043.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 6043. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Interstellar Medium, Interstellar Medium Objects

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M43 is a part of the Orion nebula (M42) separated from the main body by a dust lane and sometimes referred to as `de Mairan's nebula'. It was first discovered in 1733 by de Mairan as a `brilliance surrounding a star' and consists primarily of a relatively dust free region of ionized hydrogen (H II) and its centrally located exciting star (NU Orionis). Dust mixed with gas lying along or outside th...

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