The Dude Who Somehow Upset Hera for Being Too Good At Hunting

Hello my favorite padawans! How are you all this fine day (or night, maybe you’re doing some late night reading...that’s right I can see you!). This week we’re gonna take a little break from the whole “how to take a picture of the sky” and do a short update focusing on another aspect of our favorite Nebula, the Orion Nebula. Alright sit yourself down, buckle up, it's time to do you some learning! Now the question we have surprisingly not answered is how the Orion Nebula got its name? (I know I know, I should have answered that in my first real post but I didn't think to?) A few updates ago we learned that the Orion Nebula got its original name (Messier 42) from a crazy man by the name of Charles Messier (Plotner 2015). You may be asking yourself “ROBEA how did the Orion Nebula come to be called Nebula?” (Or you could be asleep and not asking that question so I’m just gonna pretend you did). Unsurprisingly the Orion Nebula got its name because it is a part of the Orion Constellation (Zimmermann 2017). 


Once again I am flexing my amazing MS Paint skillz 


The Orion Constellation was named by ancient Greeks after a man who claimed to be the best hunter in the world (Zimmermann 2017). According to one version of the story Orion went about the world claiming to be the best hunter ever, for some reason this upset Hera (She’s the wife of Zeus well known for her anger towards her husbands lovers…); Hera sends a scorpion to kill Orion and in his death Zeus put him in the starts for fun I guess (Zimmermann 2017). (Ancient Greek stories are not known for making too much sense.) That story about Orion is how the Orion Constellation was named and in turn passed its name down to the Orion Nebula. Now wasn’t that just a lovely story? Ok, ok you’re free to go. Toodaloo everyone!

Works Cited
Plotner, T. (2015, December 25). Happy Birthday, Charles Messier! Retrieved October 22, 2018, from https://www.universetoday.com/33561/happy-birthday-charles-messier/
Zimmermann, K. A. (2017, November 08). Orion Constellation: Facts About the Hunter. Retrieved October 22, 2018, from https://www.space.com/16659-constellation-orion.html

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