A telescope on a Chilean mountain has just imaged a spectacular nebula in the night sky where stars are being born. The glow of the Sh2-54 nebula—about 6,000 light-years from Earth in the ...

A new image resembling a Christmas wreath captures young stars lighting up dense, dark clouds of dust. The image features NGC 602, a star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy to the ...

The JWST’s near-infrared camera has captured the Ring Nebula in unprecedented detail. The doughnut-shaped astronomical object, formed by a star throwing ... The last time the birth of a spotless ...

The JWST data highlights the ring-like outline of the “wreath” while the Chandra X-ray observations (highlighted in red) ...

Clearly, the Andromeda Nebula was a system of stars quite separate from the Milky ... among myriad others. This was the birth of our modern universe of galaxies, so poetically celebrated in ...

Discover how a giant interstellar cloud known as the solar nebula gave birth to our solar system and everything in it ... This was possibly because of a nearby supernova - an exploding star - sending ...

This image of Ring Nebula captured on a James Webb Space Telescope was issued by the University of Manchester Mesmerising images of the end stages of a distant star's life have been captured by ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to Northern Hemisphere mid-northern ...

Hubble’s breathtaking images of the Tarantula Nebula showcase one of the most massive stars ever discovered. Join us as we explain this stunning 4K image and reveal the science behind it!

The Carina Nebula is home to a million of stars. The image has been formed with the help of information from NASA Hubble telescope. Nebulas are made of dust and gases, which can get pulled ...