The latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope turns a quiet patch of sky into a spectral scene, revealing a so‑called ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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When astronomers looked at a stellar pair at the heart of a stunning cloud of gas and dust, they were in for a surprise. Star pairs are typically very similar, like twins, but in HD 148937, one star ...

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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 ...

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 ...