This image represents ten total hours of observation and was captured from the Dark Sky Alqueva observatory in Portugal.

The lanes and clouds of dust in the star-forming Orion Nebula (M42) reveal a dark dimension to this familiar object.

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...

We are working our way through some of the astronomical objects in the constellation Orion. Of all of them, my proudest ...

Nebulae come in different types, such as emission, reflection, and dark nebulae. One of the most well-known and visible examples is the Orion Nebula. NASA uses cutting-edge telescopes and instruments ...

(Neither Titan nor the Crab Nebula are visible to the unaided eye, but with a dark sky and cooperative weather, you can find them with binoculars.) The explosion stripped off the star's outer ...

Because it occupies the 33rd slot on American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard’s famous list of dark nebulae, astronomers also refer to it as Barnard 33, or simply B33. You’ll find the ...

Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars, reside in a hotbed for star ...

Clearly, the Andromeda Nebula was a system of stars quite separate ... so poetically celebrated in Seeing in the Dark. Today, astronomers have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much ...