The Orion Nebula, the closest massive star-forming region to Earth, has long captivated stargazers with its brilliant glow ...

Hubble Space Telescope in December 1999, the Hubble Heritage Project captured this picture of NGC 1999, a nebula in the constellation Orion.

Cao Jun has set up a small observatory at his goat pen where he takes pictures of the universe every night after work. The 30 ...

Given that by conservative estimates our galaxy harbors at least 200 billion ... and dust and is known to astronomers as M42, the Orion Nebula. It seems to have a large number of low-mass stars ...

To mark the occasion, astronomers have released a special anniversary image of two nebulas, which lie within a satellite galaxy of the ... from the spectacular Orion Nebula to the fabulous ...

NASA has shared stunning images of various star clusters. Here are a few of these captivating shots. The bright glow of the ...

Stretching almost 1,500 light-years across, NGC 604 is nearly 100 times larger than the Orion Nebula in our own galaxy. NHC 604 contains more than 200 hot, massive young stars — significantly ...

A kind of super-massive version of the Orion Nebula, it’s is one hundred times ... the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), an irregular dwarf galaxy that orbits our Milky Way galaxy and will be ...

An important clue to which perspective was right seemed to be hidden in the nebulae—fuzzy smears of light ("nebula" means "fuzzy ... only one star system (or galaxy) among myriad others.