Little Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Messier 76, M76, or NGC 650/651) located 3,400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus. It is classified as a planetary nebula, an ...

Astronomers refer to this kind of nebula as an emission nebula. As impressive as the Orion Nebula is, it’s just the tip of a huge celestial birthing ground. We see only the lit-up part of the ...

The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this Hubble Space Telescope image, which has also captured a smaller companion star in the upper left of this image.

That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide), we see a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have observed enigmatic rings in the planetary nebula NGC 1514, ...

Orion Nebula: It is a cloud of dust and gas ... globules' can be seen absorbing light in the center of the NGC 281 emission nebula, a region where new stars are forming. NGC 6530: A section ...

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 ...

Take for example the Orion Nebula. Forming the middle "star ... from the 1920s showed that it had features of an emission nebula, giving off its own glow separate from that of the stars in ...

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