With February’s winter nights regularly dropping below freezing, it’s tempting to take the easy way out and just stay inside.

The Orion Nebula is located just 1,500 light-years away, making it the closest large star-forming region to Earth. Easily ...

This week’s first small-telescope target is Sirius B, the companion to the night sky’s brightest star, Alpha (α) Canis Majoris. American telescope-maker Alvin Graham Clark discovered that ...

You’ll find several bright planets, stars and obvious constellations in the February evening sky. The most obvious ...

Many know the Great Orion Nebula (M42) in Orion’s Sword as a bright diffuse nebula — a glowing cloud of cosmic gas illuminated by the Trapezium star cluster. But the Orion Nebula also has a ...

Al Jabbar is one of the Arabic names for Orion, the “Hunter", one of winter's most conspicuous constellations.

Above Sirius, the hourglass form of Orion boasts the bright stars Rigel, his left foot, and Betelgeuse, his right shoulder.

A recent photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures two protostars called HOPS 150 and HOPS 153, which are located in the stellar nursery of the Orion Nebula.

Above Sirius, the hourglass form of Orion boasts ... the sword of Orion contains the massive, red-glowing Orion Nebula, where stars are being born. Closer to the belt lies the famous dark cloud ...

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just to the southeast of Orion and boxed inside the Winter Triangle made from the stars Sirius, Procyon and Betelgeuse.