including the Cygnus Star Cloud, one of the brightest portions of the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere. The Great Rift, a complex of dust clouds, stretches diagonally through the Summer ...

Now rising in the east after sunset is the famous Summer Triangle, so called because it sits high overhead on summer nights.

The researchers have investigated the Cygnus Cloud area, which is a typical star-forming area relatively nearby. It hosts numerous young open clusters and HII regions (containing clouds of ionized ...

On the left is the dark nebula Barnard 144 or LDN 857 (called “Fish on the Platter” by astronomer Bart Bok) which is buried in the rich Cygnus star cloud. This composite of two 50-minute ...

Binoculars will show hundreds especially between Albireo and Sadr, the location of a dense patch of starlight called the Cygnus Star Cloud. You won't believe your eyes. This map shows the swan ...

The Coalsack underscores the Cygnus Star Cloud before blending seamlessly into the Great Rift writ large. The dust lanes accumulate at the star-dense, bulging Galactic Center in Sagittarius before ...

It is a few thousand light-years distant in the direction of Cygnus (The Swan). The cloud itself is relatively small by the standards of star-forming regions, around 2 light-years along its ...

Red supergiant Antares, having just passed opposition on May 30, begins June low in the southeast at dusk. The morning ...

The bright Cygnus star cloud is obvious. As are the dark lanes in the Milky Way, including the Funnel Nebula at top, aka Le Gentil 3.