The latest research results indicate that these famous star clusters represent the different phases of life of one and the same star system. A team of astrophysicists at the Institute for Advanced ...

A star is currently forming in the Orion Nebula, visible to the naked eye right under Orion’s Belt. This giant cloud of gas and dust contains enough material to create about 200,000 stars over ...

"It appears that there is a preferred physical environment in which stars form when they evolve within these clouds." ...

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A new image of the Orion Nebula created using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope and NEOWISE shows the star-forming region in stunning detail.

Within the Orion Nebula lies the Orion Bar, a sharp, diagonal, ridge-like feature of gas and dust. The Orion Bar is essentially the edge of an astronomically large bubble carved out by some of the ...

ISRO astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla has shared breathtaking images of the Orion Nebula taken from his rooftop in Bengaluru.

This infrared image of the Orion Nebula features plenty of dust, but no stars. In these infrared wavelengths, it’s possible to see hotspots where new stars are forming. ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

Lying about 1,350 light-years away and spanning 25 light-years, the Orion Nebula appears to the naked eye as a fuzzy “star” dangling just below the three stars of Orion’s belt.

Hubble image of the Orion Nebula, and a zoom in on the protoplanetary disc d203-506 taken with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). (Image credit: NASA/STScI/Rice Univ./C.O'Dell et al / O ...

This night, Orion and the M42 nebula were caught in the branches of a close-by tree. With the cold, waiting for it to rise higher was not an option.