The Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33, is made of dense, cold clumps of collapsing interstellar material that are very slowly dissipating. Lighter gas around the horse has already eroded ...

Mid- and near-infrared observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have highlighted never-before-seen features in the space cloud known as the Horsehead Nebula. In a breathtakingly detailed ...

The next partial eclipse will happen in the early hours of March 29, with it being visible mostly in the northeast starting ...

Image caption, This is photographic plate B2312 in which Williamina discovered the Horsehead Nebula. The three black circles are the stars of Orion's belt. The Horsehead Nebula is circled just ...

The European Space Agency released full-color images captured by Euclid, the first-ever space telescope designed to study the dark universe. The images show spiral galaxies and the Horsehead Nebula.

A nice catch This week’s first large-scope object is planetary nebula NGC 2867 in Carina the Keel. Sir Patrick Moore included this object in his Caldwell catalog as number 90. You’ll find this ...

Helix Nebula: This a planetary nebula, which is formed when a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. Orion Nebula ...