With February’s winter nights regularly dropping below freezing, it’s tempting to take the easy way out and just stay inside.

But the Orion Nebula also has a dark side ... eastern side of the Huygens region (the Fish’s Head), where the 4th-magnitude Trapezium star cluster represents one of the Fish’s eyes.

But the Orion Nebula also has a dark side ... the eastern side of the Huygens region (the Fish's Head), where the 4th-magnitude Trapezium star cluster represents one of the Fish's eyes.

A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows two protostars in the Orion Nebula, a diffuse nebula located approximately 1,350 light-years away in the constellation of Orion. The Orion ...

What's the old saying? A watched kettle (or star?) never boils? Our object of interest in this feature is M42, the Orion nebula. The 'M' stands for Messier catalogue objects, that name coming from the ...

HOPS 153 is a significantly younger stellar object than its neighbor, still deeply embedded in its birth nebula and enshrouded by a cloud of cold, dense gas. While Hubble cannot penetrate this gas to ...

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Everybody Loves a Cluster with a Nebula This is NGC 2264, the Cone Nebula, and the Christmas Tree Cluster. The bright stars ...

The Horsehead Nebula is a part of much larger complex in the constellation Orion. Known collectively as the Orion Molecular Cloud, it also houses other famous objects, such as the Great Orion Nebula.

Gaze deeper into the night sky with the best deep space telescopes, perfect for stunning views of the Beehive Cluster, the Orion Nebula and other cosmic wonders. Are you looking for a telescope to ...