With February’s winter nights regularly dropping below freezing, it’s tempting to take the easy way out and just stay inside.

On Monday, February 10 at 6:09 p.m, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch ...

If you dial in this distance, however, you’ll find yourself staring at magnitude 2.0 Alnitak (Zeta [ζ] Orionis), the southernmost star in Orion’s Belt. The Flame Nebula sits only 15 ...

The Orion Nebula, the closest massive star-forming region to Earth, has long captivated stargazers with its brilliant glow and dynamic activity. Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope provided a ...

Easily visible to the naked eye, with a magnitude of 4. , where new stars are being born from the gas and dust. The intense ...

A kind of super-massive version of the Orion Nebula, it’s is one hundred ... the constellation of Dorado (The Dolphinfish). This map shows most of the stars visible to the unaided eye under ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, the Orion Nebula (Messier 42, M42). Just 1,500 light-years away ...

The image is of the Orion Nebula, a massive collection of swirling gasses surrounding some very young but very large stars. The two telescopes captured the same image in different wavelengths of ...

Megeath Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the Orion Nebula in a new Hubble Space Telescope image. The recent photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures two of these ...

You’ll spot it in far-northern Orion ... from nearby stars, which will improve the nebula’s contrast. Check out Astronomy.com’s interactive StarDome to see an accurate map of your sky.