But the Orion Nebula also has a dark side, formed by its lanes and clouds of dust. They frequently avoid scrutiny, as the surrounding brightness tends to steal the show. But you can easily train ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

Because it occupies the 33rd slot on American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard’s famous list of dark nebulae, astronomers also refer to it as Barnard 33, or simply B33. You’ll find the ...

This image represents ten total hours of observation and was captured from the Dark Sky Alqueva observatory in Portugal. Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science ...

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 ...