But the Orion Nebula also has a dark side, formed by its lanes and clouds of dust. They frequently avoid scrutiny, as the surrounding brightness tends to steal the show. But you can easily train ...

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 ...

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 ...

The Andromeda nebula, M31, was a prominent example. It’s visible to the naked eye from a dark site. Astronomers as far back as the mid-18th century had speculated that some nebulae might be remo ...

The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this Hubble Space Telescope image, which has also captured a smaller companion star in the upper left of this image.

The Andromeda nebula, M31, was a prominent example. It’s visible to the naked eye from a dark site. The Andromeda galaxy, then known as the Andromeda nebula, is a bright spot in the sky that ...