This month will bring some striking celestial sights, including one of the year’s best meteor showers and a glowing ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and try to observe a celestial object that’s quite difficult to see — the Horsehead Nebula. This dark nebula, made of dust and super-cold gas, lies ...

With February’s winter nights regularly dropping below freezing, it’s tempting to take the easy way out and just stay inside. That would be a mistake, considering how many celestial sights that you ...

We are working our way through some of the astronomical objects in the constellation Orion. Of all of them, my proudest moment as an amateur astronomer came on a frigid night in January over four ...

Day 5 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: This image from the James Webb Space Telescope captures one of the sharpest infrared images to date of the Horsehead Nebula, and a night sky full of ...

The Horsehead Nebula, one of the most famous formations of the cosmos, has just been revealed in a stunning new light. Here's what to know about the Horsehead Nebula, and what NASA says are "the ...

This image of the Horsehead Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope focuses on a portion of the horse’s “mane” that is about 0.8 light-years in width. It was taken with Webb’s NIRCam ...

A close-up of the "mane" of the Horsehead Nebula, located some 1,300 light-years from Earth. This view was captured by the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument. NASA, ESA, CSA, K.

Focused on the part of the sky where you can spot the constellation Orion (“The Hunter”) on clear nights, the James Webb Space Telescope’s latest dispatch blinks in astonishing images from an area ...

This image showcases three views of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the Horsehead Nebula. The first image (left), released in November 2023, features the Horsehead Nebula as seen in ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope recently produced the “sharpest infrared images to date” of the Horsehead Nebula, according to the European Space Agency. As BBC Science Focus explains, ...