A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

This spectacular star-forming region is one of the first images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has unveiled its first close-up image of the cosmos, offering an extraordinary new perspective ...

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures turbulent clouds of gas and dust swirling between bright blue young stars in the Tarantula Nebula.

Amid an enormous cloud of dust and gas, thousands of stars are forming. Many of these stars have never been seen before, but these images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are revealing ...

In the brightest region within the nebula, some observers see the bird’s head, while others see a chicken’s butt. By Laura Baisas Published Dec 21, 2023 2:45 PM EST Get the Popular Science ...

The exact location is of 30 Doradus, a galaxy located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, serving as a neighbor to our own Milky Way. Using the X-ray images taken from Chandra, NASA officials used Webb ...

This beautiful and strange nebula, in this colorized space image, is all that's left of a massive star that died 40,000 years ago.

A breathtaking new image of the famous Eagle Nebula captures a towering pillar of gas and dust sculpted by intense stellar radiation. The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, is located about ...

The nebula is in the Perseus molecular cloud and located approximately 960 light-years away. SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI IMAGE PROCESSING: Varun Bajaj (STScI), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Jennifer ...