On winter evenings, Orion is one of the easiest star patterns to find in the sky. Its identifying feature is a row of three stars which make up the belt of the legendary hunter, Orion. Above the ...

Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths ... both of which take their names from the Herschel Orion Protostar Survey, carried out with the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space ...

The Orion constellation. The main stars of this constellation are connected by straight blue lines and some of them are labelled by their name. The Orion Nebula (M 42) is identified by the red square.

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.