The constellation of Orion is home to some of the brightest and most iconic stars in the night sky. Among these stellar ...

A star is currently forming in the Orion Nebula, visible to the naked eye right under Orion’s Belt. This giant cloud of gas and dust contains enough material to create about 200,000 stars over ...

Lying about 1,350 light-years away and spanning 25 light-years, the Orion Nebula appears to the naked eye as a fuzzy “star” dangling just below the three stars of Orion’s belt.

The large, intricate semi-circle around the three stars that make up Orion's belt is known as Barnard's Loop (Sh2-276), a nebula about 1,600 light-years away that itself spans some 300 light-years ...

Find Orion’s belt and the sword that hangs from it. Go down the sword to the end and you’ll find perhaps the most beautiful nebula in the whole night sky. I never get tired viewing it.

The latest research results indicate that these famous star clusters represent the different phases of life of one and the ...

Though the stars, especially in Orion’s Belt, appear close to one another, they’re actually hundreds of light years apart. One is 800 light-years away, another is 1,300 light-years away, and ...

A series of three fainter stars form Orion's dagger, which hangs from his belt. The middle star in the dagger is actually not a star, but the Orion Nebula, which through a telescope is revealed to ...

Orion, along with its famous belt and sword, consisting of the Orion Nebula, really is quite a marvel in the night sky. It’s almost artificial, the way all the stars are perfectly arranged in ...

New images of the Orion Nebula from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have been included in ESA’s ESASky application, which has a user-friendly interface to visualise and download ...

It's the earliest stage of planet formation ever seen by scientists. The new planetary system is taking shape around HOPS-315 ...