The Rosette Nebula blossoms in deep space, captured in this wonderful image taken by the high-resolution Dark Energy Camera, illustrating how hot, bright stars at the heart of the Rosette are ...

NASA has released a breathtaking image of the Helix Nebula, offering unprecedented clarity and detail into the final stages of stellar evolution. Captured using advanced imaging technologies, this new ...

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for five long years—an infrared photo of two dying stars we'd requested from ...

Every star you see in the night sky forms from a nebula, which is a large region of dust and gas in space. One such nebula, the Lagoon Nebula, is visible with binoculars or small telescopes and is ...

Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a mesmerizing image of NGC 6369, a planetary nebula known as the “Little Ghost Nebula.” Located about 2,000 to 5,000 light-years from Earth, this glowing ...

A gorgeous nebula turns out to hold a surprise at its center: a pair of stars that don’t match as they should. Researchers looking at the beautiful NGC 6164/6165 nebula were surprised to learn that ...

A nebula is a luminescent giant cloud of dust and gas in space that could be from a supernova or could be a star-forming region. The "dumbbell nebula," also known as Messier 27, is what astronomers ...

Stunning images from the James Webb Telescope show a dying nebula 3,400 light years away from Earth and reveal an astronomical cauldron roiling with ash, dust, and gasses, according to a new report by ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, with data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, together captured the dusty core of the Butterfly Nebula. ESA / Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Matsuura, ALMA ...

This stunning portrait of a star-forming nebula is a throwback to the birth of our own sun, 4.6 billion years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.