A closer look at the Orion Nebula's stunning view ...

Last year, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers made the startling discovery of some free-floating, planetary-mass objects in the Orion nebula that threw their ideas of planet and ...

Few things are as captivating as a dark, star-filled sky. But the stars we see and enjoy don’t just “exist”; they all came into being long ago inside of massive clouds of gas and dust known as ...

With no Moon in the evening sky, let’s visit a favorite gem that’s now well above the horizon in the few hours leading up to midnight: the Orion Nebula (M42). Hanging below the easily recognized belt ...

Last Friday night at my Mechanicsburg night sky program we looked at the planet Jupiter, a couple galaxies and a couple constellations. Despite the cold, folks stayed for the last and most exquisite ...

The Running Man Nebula is a very interesting Deep Sky Object. Located very near the Great Orion Nebula, it is about 1,300 light years from Earth. Orion and the surrounding Orion Molecular Cloud ...

In his 1926 book The Universe of Stars, the American astronomer Harlow Shapley wrote: “We are therefore made out of star stuff … we feed upon sunbeams, we are kept warm by the radiation of the sun and ...

The Orion Nebula is one of the best must-see attractions in the Pottsville sky, and it is even more impressive once you get to know more about this gargantuan star factory. There is enough material ...