Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

The nursery -- known formally as the Orion A molecular cloud -- is actually the closest known "star factory" to Earth at 1,350 light-years away, according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

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 ...

The Orion constellation. The main stars of this constellation are connected by straight blue lines and some of them are labelled by their name. The Orion Nebula (M 42) is identified by the red square.

Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the Orion Nebula in ... "The dark line that cuts across the bright glow of these protostars is a cloud of gas and dust, over 2,000 times wider ...