The James Webb Space Telescope has captured two stunning wide-field mosaics of the grandiose Orion Nebula, a large region of star formation that's one of the closest stellar nurseries to the solar ...

Astronomers are using the leak to learn more about the shell. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Orion Nebula, a famous ...

Orion is one of the most recognizable constellations in the night sky, and within the constellation is a beautiful nebula that is a busy region of star formation. A stunning image of the Orion nebula ...

A new image of the closest star-forming nebula to Earth shows the effect massive stars have in transforming the region. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

Last year, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers made the startling discovery of some free-floating, planetary-mass objects in the Orion nebula that threw their ideas of planet and ...

From a mountaintop in Hawai’i, astronomers gave us the best view yet of a strange, fascinating piece of the Orion Nebula. Deep in the heart of the iconic nebula, in a region called the Orion Bar, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — New observations of the Orion Nebula at infrared wavelengths reveal that small dust grains located in disks around young stars are growing, taking the initial steps toward forming ...

This spectacular image of the Orion Nebula, complete with its incredibly rich star-formation region, ... More was obtained from multiple exposures using the HAWK-I infrared camera on ESO’s Very Large ...

Last night a star exploded. Probably not very close to us, but it is safe to say that somewhere in the universe a supernova went off and flung most of its mass back out into the interstellar medium.

It’s one of the most incredible naked eye sites in the night sky—and it’s now been imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The Orion Nebula—also known as M42—is a stellar nursery, home to ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) just released a pair of giant mosaic images of the Orion Nebula, and they’re worth exploring. Just 1,500 light years away, the Orion Nebula is so close that you can ...