Since late autumn, the great constellation Orion the Hunter has been gradually migrating westward across the Butler evening ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the weekend, which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.

After boasting of her beauty to the Nereids or sea nymphs, she is punished rather harshly in my view by Poseidon and finds herself tethered to the north star Polaris to spin around it for perpetuity ...

The Orion Nebula — where young stars are being actively born — serves as a natural laboratory for uncovering the secrets ...

Discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, M20 is a star-forming nebula located 9,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42 or NGC 1976) ...

The Orion Nebula stretches over 40 light-years across ... twin cluster of young stars less than 20 million years old in the constellation Perseus. Both clusters are about 7,000 light-years away.

When a Wisconsin shipyard won the contract to build a new class of Navy frigate in 2020, the project was meant to address an embarrassing reality: The U.S. is now the global laggard in building ...

Their binary nature and abundance in certain regions of space, such as the Orion Nebula, suggest an origin different from ... such as the Trapezium Cluster in the Orion constellation.

Look for the Orion constellation and the Orion Nebula (Messier 42)—our solar system came from that direction!” The increased dust from this galactic encounter could have had several effects. It may ...