Ignoring the clouds - too dim apart from the Orion Nebula - Wikipedia to see without a telescope and long photographic exposures - you can make it as a belted figure with something dangling, conventionally called a sword. But it is rather arbitrary. read more
It does not. It is a collection of bright stars, mostly young by the lifetimes of stars and created by the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. read more
While the Orion constellation is named after the hunter in Greek mythology, it is anything but stealthy. Orion, which is located on the celestial equator, is one of the most prominent and recognizable constellations in the sky and can be seen throughout the world. read more
The constellation Orion contains two of the ten brightest stars in the sky – Rigel (Beta Orionis) and Betelgeuse (Alpha Orionis) – a number of famous nebulae – the Orion Nebula , De Mairan’s Nebula (Messier 43) and the Horsehead Nebula, among others – the well-known Trapezium Cluster, and one of the most prominent asterisms in the night sky – Orion’s Belt. read more