This week’s small telescope target is the sky’s brightest reflection nebula: M78 in Orion. Through a small telescope at about 120x, you’ll spot an 11th-magnitude star. On either side of this ...

This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years away. These opaque, dark knots of gas and dust called "Bok globules" are ...

This type of nebula is called a reflection nebula, because its internal light is scattered or reflected. Credit: Davide De Martin/ESA/ESO/NASA. Image Processing: Photoshop FITS Liberator Sharp ...

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.

Orion Nebula: It is a cloud of dust and gas located in the constellation Orion. Thousands of stars are being born there. NGC 281: Dark, dense clumps of gas and dust known as 'Bok globules' can be ...