The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again unveiled astonishing celestial phenomena, most notably the discovery of ...

Orion and Canis Minor constellations and Sirius above horizon on a cold winter night. (Image credit: Eerik/Getty Images) The Great Orion Nebula is a vast cloud of extremely tenuous glowing gas and ...

“Breathtaking” images of a stellar nursery in the Orion Nebula taken by the James Webb Space Telescope are revealing intricate details about how stars and planetary systems form.

Roughly 1,300 light years away, the Orion Nebula can sometimes be seen with the naked eye from Earth. Now, researchers have captured the most detailed images of the gigantic nebula to date.

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located ...

The Orion Nebula is a region of star formation 1,350 light-years from Earth, located in the belt of the northern hemisphere constellation of Orion. It has long been studied by astronomers, ...

The Orion Nebula is located just 1,350 light-years away from Earth. Because of its relative closeness to Earth, the star-bearing nebula has been a study point for astronomers for decades.

The Orion Nebula images will be examined by an international team of researchers that spans more than 18 countries. The team is currently waiting on spectroscopic data, ...

The Orion Nebula itself is believed to be roughly 3 million years old, "which for us astronomers is very young," he said. Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter now.

This infrared image of the Orion Nebula features plenty of dust, but no stars. In these infrared wavelengths, it’s possible to see hotspots where new stars are forming.

This work in progress is situated in the Orion Nebula, a luminous cloud of interstellar gas and dust about 1,500 light-years away. Its star is about 1 million years old—a baby, in astronomy terms.

The star itself lies on the outskirts of the Orion Nebula, roughly 1000 light-years away from the Earth. You can see the outflows along the top and bottom of the new Orion photo captured by Hubble.