in Orion's Sword as a bright diffuse nebula - a glowing cloud of cosmic gas illuminated by the Trapezium star cluster. But the Orion Nebula also has a dark side, formed by its lanes and clouds of ...

This one-million-year-old star-forming region contains thousands of new stars and hundreds of planetary mass objects floating freely in the nebula, not orbiting stars. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

Deep in space, mysterious wanderers roam freely — of planetary masses yet not hosted by stars. These celestial nomads, called ...

On Feb. 28, seven planets—Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury, and Saturn—will all grace the early evening sky.

For over two decades, astronomers have been perplexed by the existence of planetary-mass objects, or PMOs, celestial bodies ...

This week’s second object is open cluster NGC 2281 in Auriga ... week’s large-telescope target is the famous Horsehead Nebula in Orion the Hunter. Because it occupies the 33rd slot on American ...

That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide), we see a ...

With even a small telescope or a decent pair of binoculars, you’ll see that the giant cloud of gas surrounds a cluster of stars within it. Orion Nebula (Mike Lynch) If your optics are powerful ...

Orion Nebula: Located constellation Orion that's visible to the naked eye. It's a stellar nursery where thousands of stars ...

Pity the poor constellation Monoceros. The faint Unicorn is outshone by famous constellations like Gemini, the Twins, to the north and Orion, the mythic giant, to the west.