The Orion Nebula is the only nebula that can be seen with the naked eye, despite being 1,344 light years away.

Using JWST, astronomers confirmed that some proplyds in the Orion Nebula surround brown dwarfs, providing new insights into ...

Deep within the Orion Nebula, researchers are one step closer to understanding how Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs) form—a longstanding mystery in astrophysics The recent discovery of JuMBOs ...

A dying star is throwing a cosmic tantrum in this combined image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), which NASA has lent to the California Institute of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located ...

Dubbed “Mystic Mountain,” this is a region of the much more extensive Carina Nebula. In it, towers of cool hydrogen gas laced with dust are seen to rise along the nebula’s wall ...

Deep within the Orion Nebula, researchers are one step closer to understanding how Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs) form—a longstanding mystery in astrophysics In a recent study, Dr. Richard ...

This magnificent swirl of gas is made luminous by the ultraviolet radiation of hot young stars that are embedded in it. Its motions indicate that it may have begun to shine only some 23,000 years ago ...

James Abbott of North Essex Astronomical Society explains what to look for in the sky above Essex this December.