A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.
an emission nebula located in the constellation of Orion. This nebula is a busy stellar nursery, with many new stars being formed there. But it isn’t stars which researchers were interested in ...
Their binary nature and abundance in certain regions of space, such as the Orion Nebula, suggest an origin different from ... such as the Trapezium Cluster in the Orion constellation.
Stargazers will be treated to overlapping meteor showers in April. From April 20 to April 26, both the Lyrids and Eta ...
After boasting of her beauty to the Nereids or sea nymphs, she is punished rather harshly in my view by Poseidon and finds herself tethered to the north star Polaris to spin around it for perpetuity ...
Straddling the border between the constellations Dorado and Mensa ... It lies just south of the Orion Nebula (M42). Yet another pair ties for lucky 13, with first up the open cluster Collinder ...
Stargazers in Fort Frances and the surrounding area are in for a special treat this month as an annual astronomical event returns to our night skies. On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at 10 p.m., the April ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled an awe-inspiring celestial spectacle of a spiral galaxy interacting with a ...
What it is: The Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) star-forming region Where it is: 1,400 light-years away, in the constellation Orion When it was shared: March 10, 2025 Why it's so special: What are the ...
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What Is a Nebula?
The Orion Nebula. Credit: NASA ... concentrated in a lumen inside the nebula's molecular cloud. Found in the constellation Serpens, the Eagle Nebula is about 6,500 light years away.
The Orion Nebula stretches over 40 light-years across ... twin cluster of young stars less than 20 million years old in the constellation Perseus. Both clusters are about 7,000 light-years away.