Orion the Hunter Constellation Explained | Stars, Nebulae & Space Secrets 2026” Discover Orion the Hunter, one of the most famous and easily recognizable constellations in the night sky. Visible from both Northern and Southern Hemispheres, Orion features bright stars like Betelgeuse, Rigel, Bellatrix, and Saiph, along with its iconic Orion’s Belt — three stars in a straight line: Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka. Orion is also home to stunning deep-sky objects like the Orion Nebula (M42), a stellar

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The Orion Nebula: Panning across a deep infrared image | ESO Support us at FriendsofNASA.org: This video gives a close-up view of a spectacular new image of the Orion Nebula star-formation region that was obtained from multiple exposures using the HAWK-I infrared camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. This is one of the deepest views ever of this region and it revealed many more very faint planetary-mass objects than expected. Credits: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/H. Drass et al.