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 ...

This Hubble image shows ESO 455-10, a planetary nebula located in the constellation of Scorpius. The color image is composed of near-infrared and optical observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 ...

The Orion Nebula has long been one of humankind's most studied regions of space. Now, though, James Webb has given us a look at the Orion Nebula that we've never been given before. Where Hubble and ...

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Located 161,000 light-years away from Earth, the Tarantula Nebula has long been a favorite for astronomers studying star formation. Now, we've been given an even better look at the beautiful nebula ...

These looping, twisting tendrils of gas are the debris cloud from a tremendous cosmic explosion – an explosion whose light may have been visible to the last Neanderthals on Earth 40,000 years ago.

For a long time, this cosmic structure was thought to be a star, until 1751, when Nicolas Louis de Lacaille discovered its true form. Located about 159,800 light-years from Earth on the edge of the ...

The Very Large Telescope in Chile provides what may be our best look ever at a stunningly beautiful nebula that defies its namesake. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the serious and silly sides ...

This nebula measures a whopping 250 light-years across, and it’s close enough to Earth that its relative size in the sky is equivalent to that of four full Moons. But it’s so faint in the wavelengths ...

The Ring Nebula is a common image in astronomy, but new images from Hubble reveal something rather strange inside the cloud of swirling gas. These new images, captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, ...

Dubbed the Heart Nebula for its iconic shape, emission nebula IC 1805 glows brightly in this stunning night sky photo. Astrophotographer Terry Hancock captured this image from DownUnder Observatory in ...