About 10,000 years ago, a new star appeared in what we now recognize as Cygnus the Swan. It was the light from a supernova explosion that occurred about 2,400 years earlier, when a star with roughly ...

A nebula where young stars sculpt dragon-like forms has been imaged in colorful detail by the Dark Energy Camera in Chile.

The space between stars is dotted with twisting towers studded with stars, unblinking eyes, ethereal ribbons, and floating bubbles. These fantastical shapes, some of the universe’s most visually ...

European Space Agency. (2007, December 2). Huge Cloud Of High Temperature Gas Found In Orion Nebula. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 11 ...

The Orion Nebula, the Pleiades and the Hyades open clusters could represent the different phases of star clusters: baby, ...

Flame Nebula’s interstellar clouds have been captured in stunning new images ... These stars release high-energy radiation, which causes the gas clouds to shine in a spectacular way.

A nebula is a large cloud of gas and dust in space. According to NASA, a nebula often forms in areas where a new star is forming or another star is dying. VIDEO: ...

A brilliant cloud of gas shines beautifully 163,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy not that far from the Milky Way. The gas of the nebula, named LHA 120-N55, is ...

And that’s just one star of thousands the Carina Nebula is churning out. This gas cloud is so big and bright, I can easily imagine alien astronomers in distant galaxies noting it when they ...

While the Flame Nebula appears to live up to its name, the fiery image actually represents what the interstellar clouds look like in radio waves. Flame Nebula's interstellar clouds have been ...