With February’s winter nights regularly dropping below freezing, it’s tempting to take the easy way out and just stay inside.

This week’s binocular object is the unusually named 9–12 (pronounced “9 through 12”) Geminorum Cluster, an asterism in Gemini. Although the written form looks like a calendar designation ...

Easily visible to the naked eye, with a magnitude of 4. , where new stars are being born from the gas and dust. The intense ...

But the Orion Nebula also has a dark side ... the eastern side of the Huygens region (the Fish's Head), where the 4th-magnitude Trapezium star cluster represents one of the Fish's eyes.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s powerful Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope combined to ...

Everybody Loves a Cluster with a Nebula This is NGC 2264, the Cone Nebula, and the Christmas Tree Cluster. The bright stars ...

Megeath Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the Orion Nebula in a new Hubble Space Telescope image. The recent photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures two of these ...

With the Moon now out of the way, this is a great time to look at the spectacular Sword of Orion region which contains the wonderful Orion Nebula notes the ...