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The Orion Nebula
Without a doubt the most beautiful nebula in the northern sky is the Great Nebula in Orion. Located 1500LY away, it’s a favorite for stargazers and a common target for amateur astronomers from October to March.
You may know your way around a telescope, and think you know all about it. But in the heart of the nebula there is much more going on than meets the eye.
Where is the Trapezium?
Find the familiar Orion constellation and look below the belt. Under dark skies, 2 or three stars, including a fuzzy cloud, should be visible. The fuzzy cloud is the Orion nebula, and inside it, the Trapezium.
The Trapezium
Discovered by Galileo, the Trapezium is a tight grouping of stars in the center of the nebula. Responsible for much of the illumination of the nebula, the Trapezium appears at first glance to be 4 stars in the shape of a lopsided rectangle.
These visible stars are in fact just in front of a huge nebula that is teeming with over 2000 newborn stars.
Meet the Trapezium
The brightest stars are labeled A-D, in order of right ascension. The brightest is Theta Orionis (C) at magnitude 5.1. A and B are eclipsing binaries, varying in brightness about 2.4x. This is a phenomenon easily detectable with an amateur telescope.
These hot stars produce so much high energy light, they ionize the surrounding hydrogen gas creating the visible Orion nebula. Theta Orionis is an O-type star, 251,000x brighter than our Sun, and one of the hottest stars in existence.
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Look for 6 stars
A casual glance reveals 4 bright stars in a little box. When viewed at magnifications > 125x, telescopes of 5” or more aperture under good seeing conditions may resolve two additional 11th magnitude stars (E and F), for a total of six stars.
Larger instruments can pull in G and H under ideal conditions. I often use the challenge of spotting E and F with my TEC140 refractor as a test of seeing conditions.
It is a very young cluster of stars, only 300,000 years old. The dinosaurs never saw the Trapezium.
These stars are huge! The five brightest ones are 15-30x the mass of our Sun. And, they are all within 1.5 light years of each other. Can you imagine how bright they must appear from a point within the cluster?
Given that the lifespan of a star is inversely proportional to its mass, you can quickly calculate these 5 brightest stars each have less than a three million year lifespan. Soon, relatively speaking, they will each erupt into spectacular supernova explosions.
Our descendants will be able to see them in the daytime for a few months. Then in the years that follow spectacular new nebulae will be created. Perhaps by then we’ll have FTL travel figured out and can have a ringside seat!
Hidden Black Hole
Current research suggests there may be a hidden intermediate sized black hole with a mass of ~200 Suns here. This would explain the high velocity dispersion of stars within the cluster.
So a few months from now, when you next point your telescope at the Orion nebula, pause for a moment to consider the amazing Trapezium. Given the age of the Earth and the size of the Milky Way, we are lucky to be here at the just the right time to enjoy it!
References
- Cover Image (The Orion Nebula): Credit: Opo Terser. Licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution 2.0 Generic license. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Great_Orion_Nebula_(M42).jpg
- Trapezium, the center of the Orion Nebula. Credit: ESO/M.McCaughrean et al.
- Trapezium. Credit: Mark Johnston
Abstract: We investigate the dynamical evolution of the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) bymeans of direct N-body integrations. A large fraction of residual gas wasprobably expelled when the ONC formed, so we assume that the ONC was much morecompact when it formed compared to its current size, in agreement with theembedded cluster radius-mass relation from Marks & Kroupa (2012). Hence, weassume that few-body relaxation played an important role during the initialphase of evolution of the ONC. In particular, three body interactions among OBstars likely led to their ejection from the cluster and, at the same time, tothe formation of a massive object via runaway physical stellar collisions. Theresulting depletion of the high mass end of the stellar mass function in thecluster is one of the important points where our models fit the observationaldata. We speculate that the runaway-mass star may have collapsed directly intoa massive black hole (Mbh > 100Msun). Such a dark object could explain thelarge velocity dispersion of the four Trapezium stars observed in the ONC core.We further show that the putative massive black hole is likely to be a memberof a binary system with appr. 70 per cent probability. In such a case, it couldbe detected either due to short periods of enhanced accretion of stellar windsfrom the secondary star during pericentre passages, or through a measurement ofthe motion of the secondary whose velocity would exceed 10 km/s along the wholeorbit.
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