An Orion capsule, above, built by Lockheed Martin developed cracks inits aft bulkhead after pressure testing. The capsule will haveto be repaired before a scheduled unmanned spaceflight in 2014 ...

The Orion Nebula is one of the brightest of these, visible to the naked eye. With a radio telescope, ... We sit between two major spiral arms, in what has been called the Orion spur.

Our solar system resides in the Orion Spur, which sits between the Perseus and Sagittarius arms, about halfway out from the galactic center. Our earthbound view is different.

Unlike the Orion Spur, which tapers out into just a bit beyond the Sun, the Scutum-Centaurus Arm keeps going—and going, plausibly even looping around the Milky Way.

The nebula and many of Orion's stars are located in the Orion Arm (sometimes, called the Orion Spur), a minor spiral arm of the Milky Way. The arm is about 3,500 light-years across and 10,000 ...

Our cosmic neighborhood is called the Orion Spur, and it’s sort of like a stellar side street between the main pair of spiraling “arms” that give the Milky Way its trademark pinwheel shape.

With more Dark Sky Places than anywhere else in the world, Utah’s high deserts are giving visitors front-row seats to the ...

Many of Cassiopeia’s clusters lie in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way. (We are in the Orion Spur of the Sagittarius Arm.) The Owl Cluster is slightly more than 7,900 light-years away.

The sun and earth are about 4.5 billion years old, about the same as other stars born in the Orion spur of our galaxy. In the star-birth process, clumps of dust in a large, ...