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 ...

The clue to these objects' difference really is in the names here. A reflection nebula is a region of gas and dust that ...

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 ...

Bainbridge Island’s astronomy community just earned an out-of-this-world accolade, so expect some more howling at the moon than usual. Brian Puhl, a member of the Battle Point Astronomical ...