One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a bygone sun-like star about 2,000 ...

unlike its surrounding nebula, the star cluster is visible to amateur astronomers through binoculars or even to the unaided ...

(Neither Titan nor the Crab Nebula are visible to the unaided eye, but with a dark sky and cooperative weather, you can find them with binoculars.) The explosion stripped off the star's outer ...

Messier 42 better known as the Orion Nebula, with the unaided eye from a dark sky site. This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392) because, ...

Everybody Loves a Cluster with a Nebula This is NGC 2264, the Cone Nebula, and the Christmas Tree Cluster. The bright stars ...

We are working our way through some of the astronomical objects in the constellation Orion. Of all of them, my proudest ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures extraordinary images of young stars, shedding light on star formation in the Orion Nebula.

What will happen when our sun dies? The sky will get a colourful nebula, and the remains of the explosion become a small, ...

objects or events you can see in the sky.

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth’s point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...