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ORIONS OTHER NEBULA, MESSIER 42 By Phil Plait The Great Nebula of Orion, M42, is a classic star-forming gas cloud, visible to the naked eye as the middle star in Orion’s “dagger.” And while M42 gets all the press, right next to it is a smaller but no less dramatic nebula, M43. Stars are forming there, too, and when you mix young, massive, hot stars and dense clouds of gas and dust, what you get is beauty. Voilà! Holy wow! That picture was taken by Yuri Beletsky and Igor Chilingarian. . They used