Dae-Am Yi (Member 64,103) spotted this space cloud, nebula M42 in the constellation Orion, with his telescope in the Yi-SWAN Observatory, Yeongwol-gun, Gangwon-do, South Korea. M42 is the brightest part of the Orion constellation, located around 1,344 light-years from Earth. It is positioned somewhere near the three stars that make up Orion’s belt. Parts of M42 glow red due to the emission of hydrogen atoms, while oxygen atoms make other parts glow blue.
Nebula, the Latin word for ‘cloud’, is used for all outer-space concentrations of dust and gas. So Dae-Am, in other words, is an intergalactic cloudspotter.
