Francisco Javier Pérez Olvera, taken from Mixquiahuala, Hidalgo, Mexico This wide-field view captures a broad swath of the ...

Located between 1000 and 1500 light-years away, this is part of the same molecular cloud complex as the main Orion Nebula. Next door is Messier 43, separated from the main nebula by a single large ...

The Orion Nebula (M42) is one of the most impressive sights in the night sky — part of a complex of hydrogen gas that is producing a new generation of stars. It makes a terrific target during ...

After seven cold nights, an exhausted astrophotographer captured this beautiful photo of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. The complex is a region of a vast nebula containing dark dust clouds and ...

The Orion Molecular Cloud Complex has always been a source of intrigue for scientists. This complex is interesting to astronomers for a variety of reasons and, because of this, it is one of the ...

Such is the case of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, which is helping astronomers to finally understand exactly how stars form. The latest observation by the VISTA infrared telescope at ESO’s ...

Caption G205.46-14.56 clump located in the Orion molecular cloud complex. The yellow contours represent the dense cores discovered by JCMT; the zoomed-in images show the 1.3 mm continuum emission ...

On the other end of the scale we have the Orion molecular cloud complex, a truly enormous site of active star formation that's more than 1,000 light-years away and many hundreds of light-years across.