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 ...

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

These smudges of color become troves of scientific data. Take for example the Orion Nebula. Forming the middle "star" in ...

This week’s small telescope target is the magnificent Orion Nebula, also known as M42. And although for this podcast I’ve categorized it as a “small telescope” target, you can spot this ...

A kind of super-massive version of the Orion Nebula, it’s is one hundred times larger and the biggest star-forming region in our part of the Universe. It’s so luminous that if it was as close ...

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If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s powerful Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope combined to ...

Some of his favorite subjects include the Orion Nebula (1,500 light-years away ... He then enhances the image using a digital color filter — aligned to the palette the Hubble uses with its ...

Megeath Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the Orion Nebula in a new Hubble Space Telescope image. The recent photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures two of these ...