That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide), we see a ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...

Within the Orion Nebula lies the Orion Bar ... complicated structure than we originally thought—with foreground and background gas and dust making the analysis a bit harder.

The Horsehead Nebula is part of a large cloud of molecular gas called Orion B, which is a busy star ... It shows many background galaxies and bright stars, as well as the cloud of material at ...

Look for the Orion constellation and the Orion Nebula (Messier 42)—our solar system came from that direction." The increased dust from this galactic encounter could have had several effects.