Looking near the heart of the Orion Nebula, this JWST image captures the Orion Bar. The Orion Bar is the fairly straight, diagonal feature that marks the transition from the hot ionized gas near the ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the majesty of the gorgeous Orion nebula in tremendous detail. The European Space Agency (ESA) has shared an extremely high-resolution version of ...

"The protostars are midway down the path to becoming mature stars." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Two young stars shine bright ...

Ah, the familiar chill in the air as autumn arrives, a reminder of turning leaves, the coming winter and—of course!—the return of the constellation Orion to the night sky, along with the constellation ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captures the bright Orion Nebula. Credit: ESA / Webb / NASA / CSA / M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) / PDRs4All ERS Team Astronomers have detected for the first time in space a ...

A group of extremely bright stars may be slowly reshaping the Orion Nebula and stopping one of their neighbors from forming planets, new James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest. When you ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope captured this long-wavelength color composite image of the Orion Nebula using its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument. NASA, ESA, CSA / Science leads and image ...

The Orion Nebula is famous for its beauty, but it was also the site of a recent exciting scientific discovery. The James Webb Space Telescope has detected an important molecule in a planet-forming ...

Orion Nebula, Pleiades and Hyades: The latest research results indicate that these famous star clusters represent the different phases of life of one and the same star system. A team of ...

The Orion Nebula is one of the most iconic objects in the night sky. It’s also a hotbed for star formation, with hundreds of stars spread out across a relatively small patch. Data from the James Webb ...

This stunning portrait of a star-forming nebula is a throwback to the birth of our own sun, 4.6 billion years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.