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 ...

The Orion Nebula, the closest massive star-forming region to Earth, has long captivated stargazers with its brilliant glow and dynamic activity. Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope provided a ...

Stars don't last forever. Old stars eventually die and new ones are born from great clouds of gas and dust in space. (See our page on the Lives of Stars.) The best known and closest site where ...

Hubble has captured a scene from the Orion Nebula, located 1,450 light-years away and famous as a stellar nursery where large numbers of new stars are born.

This infrared image of the Orion Nebula features plenty of dust, but no stars. In these infrared wavelengths, it’s possible to see hotspots where new stars are forming. ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech The ...

A near-infrared image of the Orion Bar, a wall of material in the Orion Nebula being eroded away by the powerful light of nearby massive stars. Ridges, filaments, dense knots of gas, and forming ...

Astronomers have spotted a swarm of young stars in the famous Orion nebula in the midst of their growing pains — a turbulent phase when the fledgling stars mature into adulthood.

This new look into the heart of the Orion Nebula is illuminated by a group of young, massive stars placed just outside the upper-right corner of the composite image.

That’s why these images were taken, to learn more about cosmic origins by studying the otherwise hidden distribution of small stars (and big planets) lurking in the Orion nebula’s vast brood.

The latest spectacle, observed by the James Webb Space Telescope, is an agglomeration of nearly 150 free-floating objects amid the Orion Nebula, not far in mass from Jupiter.

“Breathtaking” images of a stellar nursery in the Orion Nebula taken by the James Webb Space Telescope are revealing intricate details about how stars and planetary systems form.