On winter evenings, Orion is one of the easiest star patterns to find in the sky. Its identifying feature is a row of three stars which make up the belt of the legendary hunter, Orion. Above the belt ...

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 ...

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With February’s winter nights regularly dropping below freezing, it’s tempting to take the easy way out and just stay inside. That would be a mistake, considering how many celestial sights that you ...

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 ...

Orion the Hunter is the king of constellations as far as I’m concerned, and there are many other stargazers in that same stellar camp. It’s at the summit of the constellation pyramid. Even if you’re ...

On these long, dark winter nights you might consider looking up for a dose of awe in one of the sky’s most recognizable constellations, which is currently very easy to find. The constellation Orion is ...

January’s nights are unquestionably the most dramatic of all of wintertime’s skies and among the most awe-inspiring of the year. Now is also the time that the hunter becomes the hunted. Daniel ...

The Orion Nebula is one of the best “must-see” attractions in the sky, and it’s even more impressive once you get to know more about this gargantuan star factory. There’s enough material there to ...

Shannon Silverman, an Astrophysicist at the Clay Center in Charleston West Virginia, guides us through the cosmos above West Virginia. In episode one she takes us to the constellation of Orion. Almost ...

Each spring, amateur astronomers attempt the ultimate stargazing challenge—an overnight quest to spot every galaxy, nebula, and star cluster in Charles Messier’s famous catalog. Photographer Alan Dyer ...