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

The nebulosity of hydrogen gas is revealed with the use of a “Hydrogen-Alpha” filter in an astro image of the Cygnus ...

Does that middle star look fuzzy to you? It’s a stellar nursery known as Orion Nebula or Messier 42 where stars are being born and you can see it with your unaided eye. What’s more ...

Between two clusters of new stars sits the famed Orion Nebula, all of which look like one bright star surrounded by a shadowy ghoulish nebula. You’ll see some features, but not all that many ...

The 'underview effect' I thought to myself. Messier 42 in the constellation of Orion. Image taken in January from the Blackrock Castle Observatory Human space travel is the preserve of the elite.

What's the old saying? A watched kettle (or star?) never boils? Our object of interest in this feature is M42, the Orion nebula. The 'M' stands for Messier catalogue objects, that name coming from the ...

In the evening during early January, the prominent open star cluster known as the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is climbing the southeastern sky. The stars of its home constellation ...