This gorgeous image shows a fiery stunner called the Rosette Nebula that’s located 5,000 light-years away from Earth. Imaged ...

The Rosette Nebula blossoms in deep space, captured in this wonderful image taken by the high-resolution Dark Energy Camera, ...

It’s a hidden gem that will reward you for observing it. This week’s deep-sky object is the Rosette Nebula, which also lies in Monoceros. Most observers recognize it as a single deep-sky wonder.

The Rosette Nebula is a star-forming region in the Milky Way galaxy that looks like a rose. It's located in the Monoceros constellation, about 5,000 light years from Earth.

Framed in this single, starry, telescopic field of view are two open star clusters, M35 and NGC 2158. Less-bright, non-blue stars like our Sun surely also exist in this M41 star cluster but are harder ...