This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years away. These opaque, dark knots of gas and dust called "Bok globules" are ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...

The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this Hubble Space Telescope image, which has also captured a smaller companion star in the upper left of this image.

PAH emission is typically very bright and PAH ... WST's NIR and MIR imaging view of the Orion Nebula, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2024). DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346747 Els Peeters et al, PDRs4All ...

Orion Nebula: It is a cloud of dust and gas ... globules' can be seen absorbing light in the center of the NGC 281 emission nebula, a region where new stars are forming. NGC 6530: A section ...

That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide), we see a ...

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released a new trove of images capturing the Orion nebula this week—the latest stunning images of the far reaches of space that the advanced ...

It’s a combination object that pairs open cluster NGC 2467 with emission nebula Sharpless 2–311. The magnitude 7.1 cluster appears as little more than a spray of randomly distributed stars ...