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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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

Formed from expanded shells of gases, the nebula is powered by two massive stars, each with a mass over 20 times greater than our sun. The image was taken at the Dark Sky Alqueva Observatory in ...