The Orion Nebula is the only nebula that can be seen with the naked eye, despite being 1,344 light years away.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured the image of Horsehead Nebula which is a favorite target for amateur and professional astronomers. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope this stunning image of ...

Often, on closer inspection, nebulae turn out to be much more than meets the eye. These smudges of color become troves of ...

This is a remarkable discovery," she added. Webb's sensitivity to light helps it detect new molecules The Orion Nebula is visible to the unaided eye under very dark skies, but it takes a powerful ...

A kind of super-massive version of the Orion Nebula, it’s is one hundred times ... are dense star-fields that appear to the naked eye as fuzzy patches. Although they’re both circumpolar ...

Cosmic Reef (NGC 2014 and NGC 2020) This Hubble Space Telescope image image is nicknamed the “Cosmic Reef,” because it ...

Orion Nebulae: This image features the Cassiopeia A supernova, an expanding ball of matter and energy ejected from an ...

Today the Hubble Space Telescope - affectionately known as "our eye on the Universe" - celebrates ... 3D visualisations - from the spectacular Orion Nebula to the fabulous Whirlpool Galaxy and ...

It’s only possible to detect with the human eye when the lit portion of the ... also contains one of the finest sights of all, the Orion Nebula or M42. Around 1,270 light years from us, it ...