The Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33, and its companion, the Flame Nebula, sit near the star Alnitak in Orion’s Belt. Today, we know that the Horsehead is a dark, light-gobbling nebula ...

The Orion Nebula (Messier 42) is the nearest star-forming region to Earth. It is located in the Orion Constellation, just below Orion's Belt.

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located ...

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 ...

Orion's Nebula is an enormous cloud of gas and dust about 1,300 light-years from Earth. It's the closest so-called stellar nursery to Earth ...

The Orion Nebula is laden with protoplanetary disks: future solar systems. Visible light views showcase stars, emission, and reflection nebulae.

The Orion Nebula: A Star Nursery by Andrew Fraknoi Stars don't last forever. Old stars eventually die and new ones are born from great clouds of gas and dust in space.

But in this nebula, located 3,800 light-years away, one member of the pair is 1.5 million years older than the other, and the younger star is also magnetic, unlike its older counterpart. Read more ...

The Orion Nebula (M42) is one of the most impressive sights in the night sky — part of a complex of hydrogen gas that is producing a new generation of stars.

Both stars lie in the Orion Nebula, a colossal region of star formation roughly 1,450 light-years from Earth. ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Bally, M. Robberto.

The Orion Nebula images will be examined by an international team of researchers that spans more than 18 countries. The team is currently waiting on spectroscopic data, ...