earning the cosmic structure the nickname "flame-throwing guitar." Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope show how the nebula and the pulsar, formally known ...

There, a region of dark nebulosity overlaps the brighter area. This week’s large telescope target is the Flame Nebula in Orion, also known as NGC 2024. The Flame Nebula lies not quite 4° north ...

What you see in this picture is not a wildfire, but the Flame Nebula and its surroundings captured in radio waves. The Flame Nebula is the large feature on the left half of the central ...

You’ll find the Horsehead Nebula 0.5° south of magnitude 1.7 Alnitak (Zeta [ζ] Orionis). In a previous podcast, I talked about the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024). If you can see that object easily ...

With February’s winter nights regularly dropping below freezing, it’s tempting to take the easy way out and just stay inside.