Miguel Claro captured the Orion Constellation glowing red due to hydrogen gas, as seen from the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve in ...

A camera designed to decode the secrets of dark energy has captured a stunning new image that reveals the insides of a distant star-forming region. The Dark Energy Camera, an instrument mounted on ...

The Dark Energy Camera captured glowing nebulae in the Chamaeleon I star-forming region, illuminating the dense clouds with ...

Using the Dark Energy Camera astronomers have found a packed stellar nursery of infant stars in the dark nebula in the 180-light-year-wide Circinus West molecular cloud.

As you explore the dark Orion Nebula, keep in mind that you are exploring territories few have bothered to visually tread — at least in fine detail. As always, send what you see or don’t see ...

The dark cloud shown here stretches an estimated 180 light-years across, or more than 60 times wider than our solar system, and contains the equivalent mass of 250,000 suns. You may like ...

It shows what's known as the Dark Wolf Nebula. 5,300 light-years from Earth, it looks like a black hole in space in the shape of a wolf. But it's actually a cloud of space dust in which stars are ...