One of the largest structures in the sky, as seen from our perspective, has only just been discovered. It’s an enormous cloud ...

When you’ve done this and point the Pixel 9a to the sky, you should see the shutter button in Night Sight mode turn into a ...

How small can you go when forming stars and brown dwarfs? The Flame Nebula, part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, is a ...

Tromso sits at the centre of the northern lights’ oval, meaning that the lights can be visible even when activity is low.

The Orion constellation is one of the most striking in the night sky. Also known as Orion the Hunter, it’s easy to spot thanks to the three bright stars that form his belt: Alnitak, Alnilam, and ...

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, is located about 6,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens. It is a well-known stellar nursery with vast swaths of cosmic dust and gas from ...

A general view of the Orion Nebula during the planet parade or planetary alignment when four planets are visible to the naked eye on the evening sky in Sparta N.C., Jan. 25, 2025. Peter Zay ...

The closest such stellar nursery to Earth lies in the Orion ... the surrounding magnetic fields. Those fields, in turn, shape the plasma in Sagittarius C. Bally suspects that the Orion Nebula ...