M any 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 dark ...

ESO’s HAWK-I infrared instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile has captured a deeper view of the Orion Nebula’s core. Looking like an interstellar Frisbee, the dark feature in these two ...

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

How typical is the Orion Trapezium cluster ... This one is rife with active star-formation in its surrounding nebula of gas and dust and is known to astronomers as M42, the Orion Nebula.

In this case, the Orion Nebula has already given birth ... intense ultraviolet radiation from the massive stars, collectively known as the “Trapezium.” Meanwhile, Spitzer’s infrared view ...

February stargazing is fantastic for many reasons, but this year there’s a one-two-three punch of bright planets adding to ...

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 ...

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 ...