Dark, billowing clouds sweep across a stunning new view of a large star-forming area of the Orion constellation. These dense interstellar clouds of gas and dust comprise a dark nebula, formally ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spent part of its weekend studying a fascinating inner region of the Orion Nebula ... would normally block the view of an optical telescope like Hubble.

Nevertheless, astronomers can and do perform in-depth studies in the visible spectrum, using terrestrial ... appear in the ...

The Orion Nebula is famous for its beauty ... As well as making for a stunning image, the glow also allows spectroscopy instruments to study the chemical composition of the disk by splitting ...

FOR about eighteen months I have been giving attention to the nebula in Orion with two objects in ... to photograph the spectrum of tbe nebula in various parts so as to see whether any new lines ...

The nebula in Orion is, for many reasons, a very interesting body. It is an immense mass of glowing gas, and presents the same condition that, according to the nebular hypothesis, the solar system ...

IN my early observations of the spectrum presented by the gaseous nebulæ, the spectroscope with which I determined the coincidence of two of the bright lines respectively with a line of nitrogen ...

Looking near the heart of the Orion Nebula, this JWST image captures the ... but we astronomers only half-jokingly say that a spectrum is worth a thousand images," said Peeters, who measured ...

The Orion Nebula is one of the ... that could be found in abundance in a nebula but only be visible in a narrow window in the electromagnetic spectrum. And the most likely substance was helium.

This week, one of Saturn's moons pulls off an optical illusion, a brilliant galaxy creates new stars at an extraordinary rate, and a satellite spies rippling cloud banks hovering off the coast of ...