Emission nebulae are glowing, spread-out clouds of ionized gas that shine with their own light. In this image of NGC 2313, the bright star V565 at the center lights up a silvery curtain of gas and ...

Situated 1,300 light-years away beneath the three stars of Orion’s Belt, the nebula is a hotspot for star formation, where ...

On winter evenings, Orion is one of the easiest star patterns ... Indeed, astronomers have recorded a wave of star formation moving from northwest to southeast through the region of the sky ...

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released a new trove of images capturing the Orion ... nebula—a frequently studied region of space considered a hotbed for new star formation.

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 ... decades of Hubble data from the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex—and enabled in ...

LBN 483 is particularly interesting in that it does not seem to be part of a larger star-forming region like the Orion Nebula ... numerical simulations of star formation so that they can replicate ...

Their binary nature and abundance in certain regions of space, such as the Orion Nebula ... objects are often found in young star clusters. Their binary nature contradicts traditional theories of star ...