With a mass 2,000 times greater than the sun, and visible to the naked eye, the Orion Nebula is the closest massive star-forming region and is therefore one of the most scrutinized and ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion ...

A kind of super-massive version of the Orion Nebula, it’s is one hundred ... the globe for the first time. This chart shows the location of the dramatic star formation region known as the ...

Orion Nebula: It is a cloud of dust and gas located in the constellation Orion. Thousands of stars are being born there. NGC 281: Dark, dense clumps of gas and dust known as 'Bok globules' can be ...

Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the Orion Nebula in a new Hubble Space Telescope image. Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars ...

are part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Popularly called the Orion Nebula, this stellar nursery has been known to many different ...