The Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33, and its companion, the Flame Nebula, sit near the star Alnitak in Orion’s Belt. Today, we know that the Horsehead is a dark, light-gobbling nebula ...

A star cluster once thought to belong to the Orion Nebula is actually a separate entity, scientists say. A powerful telescope camera made the star cluster NGC 1980 find.

A star cluster once thought to be part of the spectacular Orion Nebula is actually a separate celestial entity parked in front of the nebula, a new study reveals.Scientists using the Canada-France ...

The Orion Nebula: A Star Nursery by Andrew Fraknoi. Stars don't last forever. Old stars eventually die and new ones are born from great clouds of gas and dust in space.

More information: Emilie Habart et al, PDRs4All: WST's NIR and MIR imaging view of the Orion Nebula, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2024). DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346747 ...

The Orion Nebula is a hotbed of star formation. The stars in and near the Trapezium are young — possibly only 300,000 years old. ... Any star chart shows this arrangement.

The Orion Nebula, or M42 by its Messier designation, ... To print your own monthly star chart, click here. To view satellites/dates/times of passage, click here.

The Orion Nebula is the region of star incubation closest to Earth, located in the constellation Orion. The Nebula is a prolific patch of dust and gas some 24 light-years across where the ...

Birthplace of the suns: The integral-shaped filament, the two star clusters above the filament, and cloud L1641 in the south can be seen on these images of the Orion A star formation region. The ...

Paper: G. Beccari, et al. Tale of Three Cities: OmegaCAM uncovers three discrete episodes of star formation in the Orion Nebula Cluster. Astronomy and Astrophysics DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730432 ...

Star-forming Gasses Seen In Orion Nebula With Revolutionary Instruments. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 05 / 070519133208.htm.

The Orion Nebula is a source of much new information about how stars are formed. It is the closest stellar nursery to Earth and, as such, it is the best observed objects in the night sky.