Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, ...

In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of ...

Look for the Orion constellation and the Orion Nebula (Messier 42)—our solar system came from that direction!” The increased ...

The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this Hubble Space Telescope image, which has also captured a smaller companion star in the upper left of this image.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has identified free-floating brown dwarfs in the Flame Nebula, some as small as two to ...

Orion Nebula: Located constellation Orion that's visible to the naked eye. It's a stellar nursery where thousands of stars ...

Co-author Martin Guerrero from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia told Phys.org that debris from the shattered planet ...

A still of the animation of the Orion Nebula ... of light normally invisible to our eyes." The nebula is about 1,350 light-years from Earth, and it likely represents a good example of the type ...

The Orion Spur branches off from the Sagittarius Arm, one of the galaxy's two major spiral arms. Earth's circumference is 24,901 miles (40,075 km), making it the largest rocky planet in the solar ...

To alter the Earth's climate the amount of extraterrestrial ... blue lines and some of them are labelled by their name. The Orion Nebula (M 42) is identified by the red square.