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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke6042.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 6042. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Interstellar Medium, Interstellar Medium Objects

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M42 is better known as the ORION NEBULA. It is a huge (four times the
area of the full Moon), bright (4 mag) diffuse nebula which constitutes
the main part of a still larger cloud extending well over half the
constellation of Orion. This cloud also contains M43, Barnard's Loop,
the Horsehead Nebula and the reflection nebula around M87....

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