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

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 ...

This winged, fairy-tale-like object is a towering cloud of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, stretching 9.5 light-years high—twice the distance from our Sun to the nearest star. The image shows WR 25 ...

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 ...

The Crab Nebula is an expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Commonly called the Crescent Nebula, Caldwell 27 looks more like a prehistoric dinosaur egg. The bright clusters and nebulae of ...

The other one (M0.51-0.10), having a prominent Fe I Ka emission line and a strongly absorbed continuum, is likely to be an X-ray reflection nebula. There is no near source bright enough to irradiate ...

It’s right next to the Moon, so the challenge in capturing this famous star cluster is contending against ... session — M42 The Great Orion Nebula. It’s the constant nebula I love to capture ...