Many know the Great Orion Nebula (M42) in Orion's Sword as a bright diffuse nebula - a glowing cloud of cosmic ... But you can easily train the eye to reverse the view. It's an illuminating ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents a visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust. The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars ...

In 2019, the Hubble team released this image of the hourglass-shaped Southern Crab Nebula to celebrate the telescope's 29th anniversary. It is also among the most massive and luminous X-ray sources in ...

Easily visible to the naked eye, with a magnitude of 4. , where new stars are being born from the gas and dust. The intense ...

Hydrogen is responsible for the red glow of the Orion nebula. (Image: Contributed) In the middle of the glowing core you can see vibrant bright new stars. In the wispy clouds around the middle of the ...

Just 1,500 light-years away, the Orion Nebula is visible to the unaided eye below the three stars that ... The dark line that cuts across the bright glow of these protostars is a cloud of gas ...

With the Moon now out of the way, this is a great time to look at the spectacular Sword of Orion region which contains the wonderful Orion Nebula notes the ...