The Cone Nebula is a well-studied stellar object, especially given that it rests just 2,500 light-years away from our planet. What makes this new image of the Cone Nebula so breathtaking, ...

The Cone Nebula is next to the beautiful Christmas Tree cluster, also known as NGC 2264. The image was shared by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in celebration of its formation 60 years ago.

The Cone Nebula belongs to a larger star-forming region called NGC 2264, which was discovered in 1785 by German-born British astronomer William Herschel, who in 1781 discovered Uranus.

A haunting image of the Cone Nebula, a star-forming region in the Milky Way Galaxy about 2,500 light-years from Earth, makes it appear like a mythological creature.

The Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) and its associated open cluster, the Christmas Tree Cluster, is in the faint constellation Monoceros the Unicorn.

A dramatic new image of the Cone Nebula shows the pillar-like cloud of cold, star-forming molecular gas and dust in unprecedented detail. The nebula gets its name from its conical shape and is ...

A new picture shows a nebula 2,500 light-years away in spectacular detail. The Cone Nebula was snapped by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. This is one of the largest ...

The Cone Nebula is a vast plume of dust and gas that serves as a birthplace of stars. This view is 15 trillion miles wide: our entire solar system is a fraction of the size of the red arc in the ...

The Cone Nebula, a scenic formation of gas and dust, is part of a star-forming region called NGC 2264. It has an eerie appearance in the VLT image, ...

Video: Haunting new image of the Cone Nebula - a Milky Way 'star-factory' that sits 2,500 light-years from Earth - makes it appear like a mythological creature ...

Here, we take a good look at the space in the general vicinity of the Cone nebula, which is a star forming region located more than 2,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Monoceros ...