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 ...

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.

Spend three minutes getting lost in space. A video released by NASA this week shows the well-known Orion Nebula in a new way. The 3D visualization of the nebula allows the viewer to get a bird's ...

This week’s small telescope target is the sky’s brightest reflection nebula: M78 in Orion. Through a small telescope at about 120x, you’ll spot an 11th-magnitude star. On either side of this ...

Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the Orion Nebula in a new Hubble Space Telescope image. Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars ...

It’s a combination object that pairs open cluster NGC 2467 with emission nebula Sharpless 2–311. The magnitude 7.1 cluster appears as little more than a spray of randomly distributed stars ...