What did you get fot X-mas? Scientists may have been gifted with a solution to the mystery of juMBOs, strange celestial ...

Their conclusions are based on new simulations of some 1500 stars in the Orion Trapezium star cluster some 1300 light years away in Orion. They simulated 2522 planets that orbited 500 stars within ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to Northern Hemisphere mid-northern ...

A surprising Christmas gift has been received by the scientists this year in the form of a potential solution to the mystery ...

The Trapezium cluster is an open cluster of stars within the Orion Nebula (which sits within Orion's Belt as we discussed) and, through a telescope, is a stunning sight to behold. Its four bright ...

More information: K. L. Luhman et al, JWST/NIRSpec Observations of Brown Dwarfs in the Orion Nebula Cluster, arXiv (2024).

A team of researchers led by Richard Parker of the University of Sheffield, alongside undergraduate Jessica Diamond, ...

For tribes in the Whanganui region, the new year is heralded by the rising of the star Rigel, in the Orion cluster. In Maori, this star is called Puanga. It's a period of celebration and ...

Castor and Pollux’s feet are not far away from Betelgeuse, the star that marks Orion’s armpit. The M35 Star cluster. (MIKE LYNCH/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER) If you slowly and carefully scan the ...