A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...

In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of ...

After installing a software update that supposedly fixes a camera glitch, I tried astrophotography on my Galaxy S25 Ultra ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

Spend three minutes getting lost in space. A video released by NASA this week shows the well-known Orion Nebula in a new way. The 3D visualization of the nebula allows the viewer to get a bird's ...

a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Popularly called the Orion Nebula, this stellar nursery has been known to many different cultures throughout human history. The nebula is only 1,500 light ...

Some molecular clouds float at the outer edge of a galaxy's gravitational influence ... Take for example the Orion Nebula. Forming the middle "star" in Orion's sword, the Orion Nebula is the ...

Could this medium-sized, app-free star-projector-night-light combo make the perfect gift for a space fan? We find out.

Some were gaseous, star-forming regions, such as the Orion nebula, or M42 – the 42nd object ... wide range of sizes and masses. Measuring a galaxy’s brightness or apparent size is not a ...

Orion Nebula: Located constellation Orion that's visible to the naked eye. It's a stellar nursery where thousands of stars ...

The legendary Hubble Space Telescope has turned its gaze to the Ursa Major-adjacent galaxy UGC 5460, revealing spiral arms, star clusters and a possible supernova "imposter". Beautifully captured ...