Newborn stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust within which planets are born, known as protoplanetary disks. In the ...

At just 1,400 light-years from Earth, the Orion Nebula, M42, is visible to the naked eye as a faint smudge Jupiter-sized "planets" free-floating in space, unconnected to any star, have been ...

DURING the night of September 30 I succeeded in photographing the bright part of the nebula in Orion in the vicinity of the trapezium. The photographs show the mottled appearance of this region ...

Within the Orion Nebula lies the Orion Bar ... regions using more traditional methods," said Peeters. "That gives us great confidence that our interpretation is more generally valid and thus ...

If so, you're in good company, and we've got a gorgeous gallery of nebulae from the world's great observatories ... in the ...

Orient Star is definitely staying true to its name. The latest version of the M42 Diver pays tribute to one of the brightest ...