On Monday, February 10 at 6:09 p.m, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch ...

in Orion’s Sword as a bright diffuse nebula — a glowing cloud of cosmic gas illuminated by the Trapezium star cluster. But the Orion Nebula also has a dark side, formed by its lanes and clouds ...

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

If you dial in this distance, however, you’ll find yourself staring at magnitude 2.0 Alnitak (Zeta [ζ] Orionis), the southernmost star in Orion’s Belt. The Flame Nebula sits only 15 ...

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 ...

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

A kind of super-massive version of the Orion Nebula, it’s is one hundred ... the globe for the first time. This chart shows the location of the dramatic star formation region known as the ...

You’ll find several bright planets, stars and obvious constellations in the February evening sky. The most obvious constellation this month is Orion. To find Orion, face south and look for Orion’s ...

The image is of the Orion Nebula, a massive collection of swirling gasses surrounding some very young but very large stars. The two telescopes captured the same image in different wavelengths of ...

Then, using the three stars that mark Orion's belt, draw a line upward, and you'll arrive at Aldebaran. A bit of stellar trivia involves the star Elnath (Beta [β] Tauri). On many star charts ...

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 ...