Take a look at this detailed image of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft. This stunning image captures HP Tau, a young star about 550 light-years away, currently in the ...

Look for the Orion constellation and the Orion Nebula (Messier 42)—our solar system came from that direction." The increased ...

Move south from Orion's Belt to find the constellation's nebula (labeled "2" in the diagram above), a true gem of the sky containing vast clouds of dust and gas where stars are actively forming.

That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide), we see a ...

The Carina Nebula, a vast star-forming region, shines bright with new stars and protostars in this NASA image. A protostar, HH 34, is captured in this image, surrounded by a disk of gas and dust that ...

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured images in the near-infrared wavelength range of the region near the Trapezium Cluster in the Orion Nebula. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] For over ...

as well as Orion’s Nebula. 4. Orion’s Sword marks about halfway between Orion’s Belt and his knees. His left knee is the brightest star in the constellation called Rigel, and it is a blue ...