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

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).

Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the Orion Nebula in a new Hubble Space ... The clouds of pink and blue consist of high-speed matter ejected from the young star as it is still ...

The clouds of pink and blue consist of high-speed matter ejected ... as it plows into the surrounding gas and dust of the Orion Nebula." HOPS 153's jet and surrounding environment will continue ...

Blue in the filaments in the outer part of ... Take for example the Orion Nebula. Forming the middle "star" in Orion's sword, ...

Some were gaseous, star-forming regions, such as the Orion nebula, or M42 – the 42nd object in Messier ... which captures the intensity of light from blue to red. Astronomers call a shift to longer ...

Some of his favorite subjects include the Orion Nebula (1,500 light-years away ... Hydrogen is represented as green, oxygen as blue and sulfur as red. When viewing one of his pictures, the ...