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The Orion nebula is part of our own galaxy (the Milky Way). The Orion nebula is about 1500 light-years away from us. Our galaxy is about 100000 light-years across.
The Orion-Cygnus Arm of the Milky Way galaxy is about 3,500 light years across and approximately 10,000 light years in length.
1500 light years away from earth.
The name Orion is of Greek origin and means "son of fire" or "light in the sky." In Greek mythology, Orion was a mighty hunter and a constellation in the night sky is named after him.
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Approx 1,344 light years.
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Distance to center of Milky Way: about 26,000 light-years. Distance to Orion Nebula: about 1,300 light-years.
Rigel is in Orion, but not in its belt. It is the very bright star at the bottom right as we look at Orion. It is estimated to be anything between 700 and 900 light years away. 700 light years would be about 6,612,165,304,151,910 kilometres and 900 light years would be about 8,501,335,391,052,460 kilometres.
Orion [See Link] is a constellation and thus has many stars of different distances from us.The nearest is GJ 3379 at around 17 light years.The brightest is Rigel at around 800 light years.
1344 years