Like the Sun shining through the clouds in the early morning, a bright star within the star-forming nebula N79 appears to ...

The bright parts of the Huygens region lend intensity to ... The post Observe the dark side of the famous Orion Nebula appeared first on Astronomy Magazine.

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light ...

NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and ...

This image represents ten total hours of observation and was captured from the Dark Sky Alqueva observatory in Portugal.

which glows more faintly than the Flame Nebula. Once you think you’ve located the Horsehead, look 15′ to its northeast for NGC 2023, a 10′-wide dot of bright nebulosity. And before you try ...

An important clue to which perspective was right seemed to be hidden in the nebulae—fuzzy smears of ... among the most productive in the history of astronomy, would supply both.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, ...