It's a very appropriately themed topic of wonderment on Looking Up this week... Merry Christmas everyone, and in keeping with the holiday spirit let’s talk about the Christmas tree you can find in the ...

The Milky Way is delivering some holiday cheer in a new image and video NASA published Tuesday. Young stars clustered together some 2,500 light years from Earth are creating a Christmas tree in space.

There is a Christmas tree in space. The nebula NGC2261, discovered about 200 years ago, has a diameter of about 1 light-year (a light-year is the distance light travels in one year, approximately 9.46 ...

The Eagle Nebula (M16) is a grand star-forming area. Its pillars of dust and gas are nurseries for new stars, and thus it is a center of celestial activity. The Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) is an enormous ...

Arrayed with a simple triangular outline above S Monocerotis, the stars of NGC 2264 are popularly known as the Christmas Tree star cluster. Image Credit & Copyright ...

What do a cone, fox fur, and a Christmas tree have in common? The answer is that they can all be found in the constellation Unicorn (Monoceros). This area, where cosmic gas and dust are intricately ...

Christmas magic has gone beyond the bounds of planet Earth! Astronomers in the UAE spent 35 hours, over the span of a month, to capture a unique image with multiple celestial objects, one of them ...

The project involved the synthesis of 421 individual five-minute exposures Dubai: Astronomers at the Seal Astronomical Observatory in the Abu Dhabi desert have released a detailed new image of the ...