The giant red nebula (NGC 2014) and its smaller blue neighbor (NGC 2020) are part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, located 163,000 ...

The Orion Nebula, top, seen from La Hayuela, Cantabria, Spain, in March.Credit...Pedro Puente Hoyos/EPA, via Shutterstock Supported by By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’ Callaghan reported on ...

Orion Nebula: Believed to be the cosmic fire of creation by the Maya of Mesoamerica, Messier 42 blazes brightly in the constellation Orion. This stellar nursery, is only 1,500 light-years away ...

Deep within the Orion Nebula, researchers are one step closer to understanding how Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs) ...

In the Orion Nebula, the brightest and most massive stars emit intense ultraviolet radiation that illuminates protoplanetary disks, allowing them to be photographed in unusual detail. The striking ...

The new image on the left shows the nebula in the infrared, using observations from Hubble’s high-resolution Wide Field ...