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

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

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

Greetings, stargazers. A prominent winter constellation is Taurus, the bull. It is particularly easy to find this month, because Jupiter is right in the middle of it. At magnitude -2.68, Jupiter will ...

One of the first constellations amateur astronomers come to recognize, the Queen offers observers many worthy sights.

This curiosity is all about formation ... of Jupiter formed like stars, the number of binaries should be close to zero. That means finding 40 pairs in just one nebula should be impossible.

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

An international team of scientists has produced the clearest three-dimensional view yet of the Ring Nebula—one of the night ...

Out of all the astrophotography shots I captured with the OnePlus 13, my imaging of M42 the Great Orion Nebula is my favorite ...

New ground- and space-based infrared observations are giving astronomers a better handle on the true populations of red ...