That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide), we see a ...

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released a new trove of images capturing the Orion nebula this week—the latest stunning images of the far reaches of space that the advanced ...

It's named Eos, after the Greek goddess of the dawn, and contains approximately 3,400 solar masses worth of gas.

An curved arrow pointing right. The Orion Nebula is a giant gas cloud 1,344 light years away. It's also a cosmic factory for producing new stars. Astronomers recently observed over 900 small ...

The Orion constellation is one of the most striking in the night sky. Also known as Orion the Hunter, it’s easy to spot thanks to the three bright stars that form his belt: Alnitak, Alnilam, and ...

Astronomers at Cambridge University detected the most promising signs of extra-terrestrial life to date by using data from ...

Often, on closer inspection, nebulae turn out to be much more than meets the eye. These smudges of color become troves of scientific data. Take for example the Orion Nebula. Forming the middle ...