M42, the Orion Nebula, is a stellar nursery located in the Orion Spur of the Milky Way galaxy, approximately 1350 light-years away and over 10 light-years across; it's a component of the larger Orion ...

A stunning video from NASA lets you experience what it would be like to fly inside the Orion Nebula that's 1,344 light years-away from Earth in outer space. Astronomers and visualization specialists ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the great achievements in modern astronomy, still producing stunning and scientifically valuable images after more than 30 years of operation. Each week, ...

This spectacular celestial shot displays the colorful emissions of a newborn star. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Swirling like ...

The Orion Nebula seen by Hubble and Webb telescopes. Image: Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, PDRs4All ERS Team; image processing Olivier Berné. Credit for the HST image: NASA/STScI/Rice Univ./C.O’Dell et al. – ...

It’s one of the most incredible naked eye sites in the night sky—and it’s now been imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The Orion Nebula—also known as M42—is a stellar nursery, home to ...

The bright star V 372 Orionis and its companion are captured in this new Hubble image, surrounded by large cross-shaped diffraction spikes. Small red stars with shorter diffraction spikes are ...

NGC 2024, or the Flame Nebula, is a large star-forming region that makes up part of the Orion constellation and resides roughly 1,400 light-years away from Earth. Besides the Flame Nebula, the Orion ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a dazzling new view of two tempestuous young stars in the nearby Orion Nebula. A bright variable star known as V 372 Orionis is the larger central star surrounded ...