“Being able to fly through the nebula’s tapestry in three dimensions gives people a much better sense of what the universe is really like,” Summers said in a statement.

This nebula measures about 24 light years across, so the journey conveyed in the new video would require an observer to travel at or even past the speed of light.

NGC 2174 is “a star-forming region in which bright, newborn stars near the center of the nebula illuminate the surrounding gas with energetic radiation. This radiation, along with strong stellar ...

The constellation Orion is home to a busy, glowing nebula. Data from telescopes has been used to create a three-minute, three-dimensional tour around its colorful caverns and bright star clusters.

According to NASA, nebulas are giant clouds of dust and gases in space. They form from an explosion of a dying star or where ...

Take a sightseeing trip through the Orion Nebula in NASA’s latest travel video By Chris Mills Published Jan 15th, 2018 4:20PM EST ...