The Cosmic Reef: This Hubble image shows how young, energetic, massive stars illuminate and sculpt their birthplace. The giant red nebula (NGC 2014) and its smaller blue neighbor (NGC 2020 ...

Using JWST, astronomers confirmed that some proplyds in the Orion Nebula surround brown dwarfs, providing new insights into ...

Soon after its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope revealed some of the clearest direct photographs of protoplanetary ...

Hubble has captured a mesmerizing photo of a cosmic nursery found in Orion. The reflection nebula, which is known as NGC 1999, looks eerily similar to a keyhole. The nebula itself, the European ...

Hubble’s 30th anniversary image turned into ... awe-inspiring images into 3D visualisations - from the spectacular Orion Nebula to the fabulous Whirlpool Galaxy and ethereal Horsehead Nebula.

A famous example of an emission nebula is the Orion Nebula, a huge, star-forming nebula in the constellation Orion. A reflection nebula called NGC 1999 lies close to the famous Orion Nebula, about ...

While Hubble is able to capture radiation's effects ... said in a press release. The Orion Nebula is similar to the environment our solar system was born in, Habart added, so studying it could ...

A dying star is throwing a cosmic tantrum in this combined image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), which NASA has lent to the California Institute of ...

The Orion Nebula. Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion ...

In 1936, astronomers saw a puzzling event in the constellation Orion: the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) became a hundred ...

From the mysterious 'Pillars of Creation' to the iconic Horsehead nebula, check out these 7 breathtaking images of Nebulae ...