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 ...

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

The Orion Nebula is a region of star formation 1,350 light-years from Earth, located in the belt of the northern hemisphere constellation of Orion. It has long been studied by astronomers, ...

Of course, when you study the Orion nebula with a 6.5-meter-wide space telescope tuned to infrared light, your view becomes exponentially better.

Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope show that a compact disk of gas and dust around a young star in the Orion Nebula is losing massive amounts of hydrogen each year.The disk, known as a ...

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.

The Nebula in Orion. By Henry Draper. Join Our Community of Science Lovers! Sign Up for Our Free Daily Newsletter. Enter your email. I agree my information will be processed in accordance with the ...

Some 1,350 light-years from Earth, astronomers detected strange pairs of unexplained objects orbiting in the Orion Nebula. Since then, about 12 months ago, other scientists have proposed a new ...

FOR about eighteen months I have been giving attention to the nebula in Orion with two objects in view, first to ascertain whether any changes are taking place in that body by making a series of ...

IT is a fortunate circumstance for students of nebular astronomy that within a short time that branch of science has been enriched by a monograph and a photograph, each perfect in its way, of one ...