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 ...

M16, also known as the Eagle Nebula, is a young star-forming region in the Serpens constellation, famously home to the "Pillars of Creation" captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 3627 is a ...

tarantulas and crabs), or where they appear in the sky (for example, the Orion Nebula). With the aid of high-powered telescopes, it's now known that many different types of nebula exist ...