On winter evenings, Orion is one of the easiest star patterns to find in the sky. Its identifying feature ... is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide ...

Skygazers can enjoy meteor showers and other dazzling displays in the night sky all month long, according to astronomers.

The third-brightest deep-sky object, glowing at magnitude 0.6 ... It lies just south of the Orion Nebula (M42). Yet another pair ties for lucky 13, with first up the open cluster Collinder ...

Stargazers will be treated to overlapping meteor showers in April. From April 20 to April 26, both the Lyrids and Eta ...

Their origins posed a particular puzzle in 2023, when astronomers discovered 40 pairs of planetary mass objects called Jupiter-Mass Binary Objects, or JuMBOs, in the Orion nebula. With masses ...