This ground-based image offers a wide view of the entire Orion cloud complex ... The undulating line of yellow dots, beginning at lower left, is a superimposed image of 304 nascent stars taken ...

It's named Eos, after the Greek goddess of the dawn, and contains approximately 3,400 solar masses worth of gas.

An curved arrow pointing right. The Orion Nebula is a giant gas cloud 1,344 light years away. It's also a cosmic factory for producing new stars. Astronomers recently observed over 900 small ...