Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years ...

Spend three minutes getting lost in space. A video released by NASA this week shows the well-known Orion Nebula in a new way. The 3D visualization of the nebula allows the viewer to get a bird's ...

On the other side of the belt stars is bluish Rigel, a hot blue supergiant, representing Orion's foot. Within Orion, just below the belt stars, is the Orion Nebula (M42). This misty patch is the ...

As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous ...

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. Popularly called the Orion Nebula, this stellar ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

The Orion constellation. The main stars of this constellation are connected by straight blue lines and some of them are labelled by their name. The Orion Nebula (M 42) is identified by the red square.

Blue in the filaments in the outer part of ... Take for example the Orion Nebula. Forming the middle "star" in Orion's sword, the Orion Nebula is the only nebula visible to the naked eye.

The Flame Nebula, located 1,400 light-years from Earth, is a region where many stars are forming and is less than a million ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and try to observe a celestial object that’s quite difficult to see — the ...