Orion Nebula
28 Feb 2016Thelan
From within, the "bleeding heart" of the Orion Nebula becomes dark, with blood-red smudges aross the sky. The nearby Running Man nebula blends into it subtly, like a purple flower. The brightest star within the Orion Nebula is MX Orionis; it's nowhere near the size of the huge EZ Orionis though. There are some gas giants with rocky moons orbiting it.
View of the sky inside the Orion Nebula from the surface of MX Orionis 5B.
Right behind the nebula lies Parenago 2149, an interesting binary where all the planets orbit not the main hot blue star, but its dead neutron companion. I wonder how that came to be.
The gas giant that's closest to the neutron star is over 3000 Earth masses and has a gravity of 26 G.
One of the gas giants orbiting Parenago 2149 B.
Magellan landing on Parenago 2149 B2A.
View of the Orion Nebula from the surface of Parenago 2149 B2A.
My next stops were the systems of HR 1918 and HR 1933 that lie in the void to the side of the Orion Nebula and behind it.
Approaching the black hole in HR 1918. I nicknamed it "The War Memorial".
Now, a small backtrack to the core of the Running Man Nebula... And onwards, to Barnard's Loop itself.