The nebula's iconic blue hue comes from the light of star Rigel, whose intense radiation and stellar winds interact with the ...

As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous ...

Shades of blue and purple come from the massive O-class stars embedded in the cloud. Finding a nebula in the sky is relatively easy, but sometimes what's visible through binoculars or an optical ...

The star which created the nebula was huge, at 20 times the mass of the sun, and its explosion was so epic it would have been brighter than Venus in the sky over Earth, despite being located 2,400 ...

Here's everything you need to know about stargazing and the night sky ... a hot blue supergiant, representing Orion's foot. Within Orion, just below the belt stars, is the Orion Nebula (M42).