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 ...

the Orion Nebula, a spiral galaxy named NGC 3627 and a galaxy cluster known as MACS J0416, according to a statement from the Chandra X-ray Observatory's website. The first image, located in the ...

It’s a combination object that pairs open cluster NGC 2467 with emission nebula Sharpless 2–311. The magnitude 7.1 cluster appears as little more than a spray of randomly distributed stars ...

A new study has uncovered an unexpected globular cluster system in FCC 224 ... HOPS 150 and HOPS 153, in the Orion Nebula, which is located about 1,300 light-years from Earth.

Chandra, Hubble and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array teamed up for this star-studded portrait of 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula.

This week’s small telescope target is open cluster M50 in Monoceros. You know, Messier’s list is full of spectacular objects — the Andromeda Galaxy is M31; the Orion Nebula is M42 ...

For the Orion Nebula, NASA wrote, “This region is a bit farther, about 1,500 light-years away. Chandra reveals young ... the farthest and biggest galaxy cluster, which is one of the largest ...