This spectacular image of the Orion Nebula, complete with its incredibly rich star-formation region, was obtained from multiple exposures using the HAWK-I infrared camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope ...

At first glance it looks like a fuzzy star to the naked eye, but I can say without a doubt it’s an absolute celestial treasure when seen with a small telescope or even a good pair of binoculars. The ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The constellation Orion the Hunter: Look southeast on early winter evenings. One of the night sky's grandest sights for binocular ...

With winter just around the corner, we look to the eastern sky on these early December evenings and notice an amazing constellation rising, a true sign of winter. Welcome Orion! This magical ...

Few things are as captivating as a dark, star-filled sky. But the stars we see and enjoy don’t just “exist”; they all came into being long ago inside of massive clouds of gas and dust known as ...

In his 1926 book The Universe of Stars, the American astronomer Harlow Shapley wrote: “We are therefore made out of star stuff … we feed upon sunbeams, we are kept warm by the radiation of the sun and ...

imran Badr, taken from San Jose, Bradley, and Death Valley; California The Trapezium Cluster at the heart of the Orion Nebula (M42) stars in this SHORGB rendition. The imager used three different ...

Last Friday night at my Mechanicsburg night sky program we looked at the planet Jupiter, a couple galaxies and a couple constellations. Despite the cold, folks stayed for the last and most exquisite ...

The Orion Nebula (M42) is one of the most impressive sights in the night sky — part of a complex of hydrogen gas that is producing a new generation of stars. It makes a terrific target during the ...

With the fall season now underway; and the Orionid meteor shower now over, it is a great time to explore the wonders of the constellation Orion as it rises in the east just after midnight. Welcome, ...