The Orion Nebula, or M42 by its Messier designation, is a stellar nursery located 1,340 light years from us. It has a true diameter of about 24 light years and seeing it in a pair of binoculars or ...

One of the night sky's grandest sights for binocular users- as well as anyone with a telescope- is the Great Nebula of Orion. Otherwise known as M42, you can actually see this with the unaided eye ...

The Orion Constellation — named after the hunter in Greek mythology — is found on the celestial equator and is a prominent constellation in the night sky.

The Orion Nebula (Messier 42) is the nearest star-forming region to Earth. It is located in the Orion Constellation, just below Orion's Belt.

The famed constellation of Orion is one of the most recognizable star patterns in the night sky, ... this is the famous Orion Nebula. Most of the stars in Orion are blue-white in color.

Bright beads of cosmic dust highlight a shimmering nebula in a new photo of a region just north of the famous Orion's Belt in the constellation Orion. The Messier 78 nebula, which is also known as ...

Long exposure color photographs of the Great Nebula in Orion show vivid red and blue hues but don’t expect to see any of that color ... The impressive constellation Orion never ...

The Horsehead Nebula in the constellation Orion has captured the public’s attention like few other celestial objects. It can rear up almost anywhere, from T-shirts at gift shops to shoulder ...

More (M42 and M43) typically associated with Orion, this reflection nebula is part of the same great molecular cloud complex, and is lined with dust and brilliant blue stars.

Orion is one of the ancient constellations, making up 594 square degrees in the night sky. In this deep star field, we now know of some 10 stars that actually contain planets around them.

The "dragon" is one of two bubbles of rapidly expanding gas the researchers found surrounding young stars in Orion's Nebula. "The expanding molecular gas in the bubbles will no longer be available ...