If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its ...
After installing a software update that supposedly fixes a camera glitch, I tried astrophotography on my Galaxy S25 Ultra again to see if it's improved. Here's what I discovered.
Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...
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 ...
A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...
Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.
Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.
In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of ...
The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years ...
The Orion Nebula (M 42) is identified by the red square ... environment encountered by the sun while sailing through our galaxy. More information: E. Maconi et al, The Solar System's passage ...