IT is a fortunate circumstance for students of nebular astronomy that within a short time that branch of science has been enriched by a monograph and a photograph, each perfect in its way, of one ...

LAST evening (March 7) I succeeded in obtaining a photograph of the spectrum of the great nebula in Orion, extending from a little below F to beyond M in the ultra-violet.

Orion and Canis Minor constellations and Sirius above horizon on a cold winter night. (Image credit: Eerik/Getty Images) The Great Orion Nebula is a vast cloud of extremely tenuous glowing gas and ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Great Nebula in Orion ” in SA Supplements Vol. 29 No. 738supp (February 1890), p. 11798 doi:10.1038 ...

Many know the Great Orion Nebula (M42) 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 ...

Of course, when you study the Orion nebula with a 6.5-meter-wide space telescope tuned to infrared light, ... And it’s a great reminder that the sky is full of such puzzles, ...

The Orion Nebula is a region of star formation 1,350 ... we often waited with great anticipation for each ‘YAMOO’ — Yet Another Map Of Orion — because of the remarkable and ...

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 ...

NASA pointed out, the Mayans called it the "Cosmic Fire of Creation." That’s an appropriate name as it is a stellar nursery.

the great russian telescope.; the glories of saturn, jupiter, and the great nebula of orion as revealed through it. share full article. march 25, 1883.

The James Webb Space Telescope's latest image: the Orion Nebula NASA, ESA, CSA, PDRs4All ERS Team, S. Fuenmayor With its recognizable belt of three stars, Orion is one of the best known ...