Situated 1,300 light-years away beneath the three stars of Orion’s Belt, the nebula is a hotspot for star formation, where ...

Stars near the shoulder of the hunter formed about 12 million years ago, the stars that make up the belt are about 8 million years old, and there are stars in the Orion Nebula that are still ...

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.

The Orion's Belt asterism (labeled "1" in the illustration above) is the starting point for finding the rest of the Orion constellation. It's made up of three stars that are almost perfectly ...

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: Believed to be the ...

You can tell spring has officially begun in the Northern Hemisphere just by looking at the stars. Here's how to easily spot the Spring Triangle without a telescope.

3. Hanging down below Orion’s Belt is his sword which is a small group of stars, as well as Orion’s Nebula. 4. Orion’s Sword marks about halfway between Orion’s Belt and his knees.

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 ...