Situated in the Orion constellation, the Orion Nebula shares a similar environment to that in which our solar system was formed over 4.5 billion years ago. "We are blown away by the breathtaking ...

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The ORION Nebula (M42) is a nebula that is faintly visible in the night sky in the constellation Orion. By combining visible and infrared images of the ORION Nebula taken by telescopes ...

From sparkling galaxies to gargantuan nebulae spanning thousands of light years across, check out these 7 rare images of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope image of the Tarantula Nebula's outskirts shows colorful stars, billowing gas clouds, and thick ...

The clue to the central star's nomadic past comes in the form of a distinct bow shock observed adjacent to the star — a ...

That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide), we see a ...

The Orion constellation is one of the most striking in the night sky. Also known as Orion the Hunter, it’s easy to spot thanks to the three bright stars that form his belt: Alnitak, Alnilam, and ...

The Squid Nebula, also known as the Flying Bat Nebula, was discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas Outters. It lies approximately 50 light-years away from Earth. NGC 7789, also known as ...

The Orion Nebula. Credit: NASA ... concentrated in a lumen inside the nebula's molecular cloud. Found in the constellation Serpens, the Eagle Nebula is about 6,500 light years away.

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out and observe a planetary nebula in the ...