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 ...
From the star-forming Carina Nebula, located 7,600 light-years away, to the dramatic bipolar region Sharpless 2-106, Hubble ...
The astronomers knew that its center is forming massive stars so used ALMA to study a larger region of the Tarantula Nebula, revealing large, wispy and cold gas clouds that collapse to give birth ...
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 ...
Former Doctor Who star Karen Gillan has announced the birth of her daughter, revealing her cute name in the process.
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 image, taken by the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, ...