Dark and light play together in this week's photos, as we examine ash spreading across Mars over decades, night and day on ...

A fresh look at the Trifid Nebula shows a dynamic region where powerful stellar winds continue to spark new stars into life.

The Trifid Nebula (M20) is the trifecta of deep-sky objects: It combines a blue reflection nebula with an emission nebula glowing in red Hydrogen-alpha (Hα) light, all divvied up by opaque lanes of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope revisits a star-forming region 5,000 light-years from Earth, which it first captured in 1997, ...

NASA celebrated the 36th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope by capturing an image of the Trifid Nebula. The ...

Hubble revisits the Trifid Nebula in a spectacular image, revealing it's expansive splendor.

The beautiful Trifid Nebula is a cosmic example that best demonstrates contrast. Also known as M20, this nebula is located about 5,000 light-years away, in the direction of Sagittarius, which is rich ...

This week’s naked-eye object is the Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius. To find it, look 5.5° west of magnitude 2.8 Kaus Borealis (Lambda [λ] Sagittarii). Around 1680, English astronomer John Flamsteed ...

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A new image of the Trifid Nebula, shows just why it is a firm favorite of astronomers, amateur and professional alike. This massive star factory is so named for the dark dust bands that trisect its ...