M any know the Great Orion Nebula (M42) in Orion's Sword as a bright diffuse nebula - a glowing cloud of cosmic gas illuminated by the Trapezium star cluster. But the Orion Nebula also has a dark ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Stunning James Webb Space Telescope images reveal new details about a pair of mysterious infrared rings around planetary ...

The intense starlight that ionizes most of the nebula is believed to come from a bright, hot blue star located on the right side of the nebula. Lunar Outpost launches $250,000 space treasure hunt ...

The nebula is located 160,000 light-years away ... double-star systems, bright stars that are still in the process of forming, and much smaller clusters of young stars," NASA said.

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.

The bright central clump surrounding magnitude ... A 14-inch scope at 350x will reveal brightness differences along the face of the nebula, as well as several gaps and disassociated nebular ...

The interaction of two doomed stars has created this spectacular ring adorned with bright clumps of gas — a diamond necklace of cosmic proportions. Fittingly known as the Necklace Nebula ...

It’s more than bright enough to see with the naked eye and very easy to find. Just as the name implies, the nebula resides in the great constellation Orion the Hunter. Even if you’re not all ...

Lynds, whose work in the 1960s greatly aided the research into nebulae. Her thorough catalogues of "dark" and "bright" nebulae helped to chart regions where stars are born. These catalogues ...