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

The king of planets is at its best, Iapetus reaches inferior conjunction, and the stunning Geminid meteor shower peaks in the ...

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 ...

The Orion Nebula is the only nebula that can be seen with the naked eye, despite being 1,344 light years away.

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured a stunning view of the Lion Nebula in the Cepehus constellation, revealing colorful ...

There it was, plain as day: the Veil Nebula, its faintly glowing gray ... These clouds tend to produce groups of stars, which ...

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 ...

Explore the December sky with our guide to astronomy events, including planetary alignments, moon phases, and asteroid ...

Arriving just in time for the holidays, they show the shape of a cosmic tree within an open cluster of stars called ... Peak, which shows gas in the nebula in green, corresponding to the ...

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 ...