The constellation of Orion represents the hunter for most of the year, but in mid-March, this prominent collection of stars becomes hunted by skywatchers. The stars of Orion, named after the pinnacle ...

With the fall season now underway; and the Orionid meteor shower now over, it is a great time to explore the wonders of the constellation Orion as it rises in the east just after midnight. Welcome, ...

Last week in Starwatch, I attempted to cover all of the astronomical treasures of the constellation Orion proudly shining in the Pottsville southern evening sky. It’s loaded with many celestial jewels ...

This deep view of the Orion Constellation glows in reddish hues thanks to a filtered view of hydrogen alpha emission, a type of light emitted by hydrogen atoms. The large, intricate semi-circle around ...

Looking up at the night sky has always felt like opening a storybook written in stars. Every culture across history has ...

The Orion Nebula, housed within the Orion constellation, is a hubbub of stars being birthed, living, and dying. Now, NASA has combined images from three different telescopes, and they tell quite the ...

Last week in Skywatch, I attempted to cover all of the astronomical treasures of the constellation Orion proudly shining in the southern evening sky. It’s loaded with many celestial jewels, such as ...

The Euclid Space Telescope has recently captured a mesmerizing image of the dark nebula LDN 1641, located in the Orion ...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Or is it a drone? It might actually be Orion’s Belt. On Friday, former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan took to his X account, writing that he “personally witnessed (and videoed) ...

The constellation Orion is perhaps the best known pattern in the night sky, rivaling the Big Dipper in fame, and the month of December is a great time for observers to reacquaint themselves with this ...