What it is: The Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) star-forming region. Where it is: 1,400 light-years away, in the constellation Orion. When it was shared: March 10, 2025.

What it is: The Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) star-forming region. Where it is: 1,400 light-years away, in the constellation Orion. When it was shared: March 10, 2025.

Day 8 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a mysterious nebula.Details of a complex structure within the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) are revealed by this image of the Keyhole Nebula, obtained ...

The famous Horsehead Nebula can also be seen in this image, towards the top right of NGC 2023. All three nebulae are part of the Orion cloud, a giant gas structure located around 1300 to 1600 ...

Good morning. It's March 12, and today's photo comes from the James Webb Space Telescope. Astronomers have long been fascinated by a nebula, NGC 604, in the relatively nearby Triangulum Galaxy.

This is an image of NGC 2170, the reddish nebula in the center of the frame. It is a large area of cosmic dust that is reflecting the light of bright, nearby stars.