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 nebula is a star-forming region located about 5,000 light-years from Earth. Hubble first imaged this cosmic phenomenon in 1997 and revisited it with an improved camera. The new image helps ...

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

Three huge intersecting dark lanes of interstellar dust make the Trifid Nebula one of the most recognizable and striking star birth regions in the night sky. The dust, silhouetted against glowing gas ...

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 ...

On its 36th anniversary, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope revisits the Trifid Nebula, providing new insights on a familiar star-forming region.