Animated map of Orion’s Horsehead Nebula showing 100 separate views in sequence. The yellow and white areas have the most intense radiation from carbon atoms ...

The Orion Nebula is one of the brightest and most famous objects in the night sky. It can even be seen without a telescope, ...

An international team led by Juan Diego Soler at the University of Vienna used two of the world's most powerful radio ...

Orion is about as familiar as a patch of sky gets. Visible without a telescope, studied by nearly every major instrument ever ...

The Crab nebula’s magnetic field has been mapped in more detail than ever before. This churning mass of hot gas and dust is one of the best-studied cosmic objects, but this new map shows it is even ...

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has produced a detailed map of the magnetic field of the Crab Nebula. The Crab Nebula is a cosmic object located 6,500 light-years away, resulting from ...

Astronomers have mapped violent star formation outside our galaxy. The researchers unveiled intricate details of the star-forming region 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, using new ...

Astronomers have unveiled intricate details of the star-forming region 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, using new observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...

Space Pictures This Week: Pink Nebula, Moon Map, More See an hourglass-shaped nebula, a space "garbage truck," and an "amazing" new map of the moon—among this week's best space pictures.