M42 (Raffaele Lunari)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: Great Nebula in Orion · M 42 · M 43 · NGC 1976 · NGC 1977 · NGC 1980 · NGC 1982 · The star 42Ori · The star 45Ori · The star θ1Ori · The star θ2Ori · The star ιOri

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La Nebulosa di Orione (nota anche come Messier 42 o M 42, NGC 1976) è una delle nebulose diffuse più brillanti del cielo notturno. Chiaramente riconoscibile ad occhio nudo come un oggetto di natura non stellare, è posta a sud del famoso asterismo della Cintura di Orione, al centro della cosiddetta Spada di Orione, nell'omonima costellazione.

Posta ad una distanza di circa 1 270 a.l. dalla Terra, si estende per circa 24 anni luce ed è la regione di formazione stellare più vicina al Sistema solare. Vecchie pubblicazioni si riferiscono a questa nebulosa col nome di Grande Nebulosa, mentre più anticamente i testi astrologici riportavano lo stesso nome della stella Eta Orionis, Ensis (la spada), che però si trova in un'altra parte della costellazione. Si tratta di uno degli oggetti più fotografati e studiati della volta celeste, ed è sotto costante controllo a causa dei fenomeni celesti che hanno luogo al suo interno; gli astronomi hanno scoperto nelle sue regioni più interne dischi protoplanetari, nane brune e intensi movimenti di gas e polveri.

La Nebulosa di Orione contiene al suo interno un ammasso aperto molto giovane, noto come Trapezio. Le osservazioni con i più potenti telescopi (specialmente il Telescopio spaziale Hubble) hanno rivelato molte stelle circondate da anelli di polveri, probabilmente il primo stadio della formazione di un sistema planetario.

La nebulosa è stata riconosciuta come tale nel 1610 da un avvocato francese, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637),[10] anche se, date le dimensioni e la luminosità, era certamente conosciuta anche in epoche preistoriche. Tolomeo la identificava come una stella della spada di Orione, di magnitudine 3.

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