Situated 1,300 light-years away beneath the three stars of Orion’s Belt, the nebula is a hotspot for star formation, where ...

The lanes and clouds of dust in the star-forming Orion Nebula (M42) reveal a dark dimension to this familiar object.

Glimpse Into the Orion Nebula The Hubble Space Telescope’s latest Picture of the Week offers a stunning glimpse into the ...

A kind of super-massive version of the Orion Nebula ... This chart shows the location of the dramatic star formation region known as the Tarantula Nebula in ... [+] the constellation of Dorado ...

Deep within the Orion Nebula, researchers are one ... Photoerosion provides an explanation for JuMBO formation, proposing that radiation from massive stars halts the growth of stellar binaries ...

In this case, the Orion Nebula has already given birth to a ... expose carbon-rich molecules in the cosmic cloud of this star-formation factory located 1,500 light-years away.

This one is rife with active star-formation in its surrounding nebula of gas and dust and is known to astronomers as M42, the Orion Nebula. It seems to have a large number of low-mass stars bound ...

Bill Christiansen’s art strays far from the beaten path “I paint what I can’t photograph, and photograph what I can’t paint,” ...

The team that devised this idea to explain JuMBO formation, led by Richard ... This idea fits because the star-forming Orion nebula is replete with hot and massive OB stars.

According to the most widely held astronomical model (the nebular hypothesis), new stars are born from massive clouds of dust ...

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...

This idea fits because the star-forming Orion nebula is replete with hot and massive ... the big mystery about JuMBOs is they seem to defy the formation avenues that lead to both stars and planets.