The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars shaping the nebula to the pillars of dense gas that may be the homes of budding stars. The star V830 Orionis shines ...

Messier 1 better known as the Crab Nebula, Charles Messier originally mistook Messier 1 for Halley’s Comet, which inspired him to create his famous catalog of objects. Peering deep into M1, this ...

We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky." One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a ...

Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the Orion Nebula in a new Hubble Space Telescope image. Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars ...

It’s most readily identifiable dusty realms lie between the bright central Huygens region and the neighboring De Mairan’s Nebula (M43). The latter is actually part of the same gas cloud that ...

The Ring Nebula is perhaps one of the most photographed objects in the night sky ... Other co-authors are David Wilner (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian); Orsola De Marco (Macquarie ...

Only 0.1° north-northeast of the Orion Nebula’s center lies M43 (NGC 1982). It is often called De Mairan’s Nebula in honor of its discoverer, French mathematician Jean-Jacques D’Ortous de ...