The nebula is easy to spot in the night sky, where it’s most visible in the Northern Hemisphere from roughly November to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located in the Orion Nebula. Credit: Space.com | imagery courtesy: ESA/Webb, NASA, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Have you noticed Orion’s Belt returning to the evening night ...

See the Orion Nebula through the eyes of the ESA's Herschel Space Telescope, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech What Jimmy Kimmel ...

Astronomers offered a new hypothesis for what created pairs of objects nicknamed JuMBOs, while other scientists argue they may not really exist. The Orion Nebula, top, seen from La Hayuela, Cantabria, ...

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Captured in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope, the star-forming Horsehead Nebula is located 1,300 light-years away in the Orion Constellation. When you purchase through links on our ...

A group of extremely bright stars may be slowly reshaping the Orion Nebula and stopping one of their neighbors from forming planets, new James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest. When you ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spent part of its weekend studying a fascinating inner region of the Orion Nebula. Orion is a familiar constellation in the night sky, recognizable by the “belt” of ...

Last Friday night at my Mechanicsburg night sky program we looked at the planet Jupiter, a couple galaxies and a couple constellations. Despite the cold, folks stayed for the last and most exquisite ...

The Orion Nebula (M42) is one of the most impressive sights in the night sky — part of a complex of hydrogen gas that is producing a new generation of stars. It makes a terrific target during the ...

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