Undoubtedly, one of the most beautiful objects in the night sky is the Great Orion Nebula, also known as M42, which shines in the southwestern sky in March. Skip to main content.

The Orion Nebula (M42) and Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) may reign supreme among star-forming regions in the Milky Way, but they pale in comparison to the Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070). The Tarantula ...

NASA pointed out, the Mayans called it the "Cosmic Fire of Creation." That’s an appropriate name as it is a stellar nursery.

This wide-field view captures a broad swath of the star-forming Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, spanning the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) to the Orion Nebula (M42). The imager used a 54mm f/4.5 ...

The Orion Nebula—also known as M42—is a stellar nursery, home to newborn stars. It’s the closest such region to us in space and maybe, just maybe, where our own star, the Sun, formed about 4 ...

January’s nights are unquestionably the most dramatic of all of wintertime’s skies and among the most awe-inspiring of the year. Now is also the time that the hunter becomes the hunted.

At just 1,400 light-years from Earth, the Orion Nebula, M42, is visible to the naked eye as a faint smudge Jupiter-sized "planets" free-floating in space, unconnected to any star, have been ...

Orion Nebula M42 in the constellation Orion. Horsehead Nebula IC 443 in the constellation Orion. IC443 is a large Hydrogen emission cloud in Orion, close to the bright triple star Alnitak, ...

It’s known to astronomers as M42: the Great Orion Nebula. M42 is a colossal cloud of interstellar gas and dust that lies nearly 9,000 trillion miles, or 1,500 light-years, away and is ...

Under the inky darkness of night in Southern California's Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, a physics and astronomy professor captured a series of awe-inspiring images of the cosmos.