If you’re new to constellation identification, the best way to locate Taurus is to wait until the easily recognized ...

objects or events you can see in the sky.

Pismis 24 is a small open star cluster located in the core of the NGC 6357 emission nebula, which is about 8,000 light-years away from Earth. The cluster contains some of the largest stars ever ...

NGC 2002 is an open star ... of the open cluster Caldwell 71. Some young stars can be seen shining through thick gas and dust clouds in the Trapezium embedded cluster of the Orion Nebula, which ...

A reflection in Orion: The Hubble Heritage Project snapped this picture of NGC 1999, a nebula in the constellation Orion, weeks after NASA astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in ...