A new Hubble Space Telescope image offers the most detailed view of the Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years from ...

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released a new trove of images capturing the Orion nebula this week—the latest stunning images of the far reaches of space that the advanced ...

Looking Ahead: The Future of Star Formation Research While Hubble has provided extraordinary images and data from the Orion ...

Emission nebulae are glowing, spread-out clouds of ionized gas that shine with their own light. In this image of NGC 2313, the bright star V565 at the center lights up a silvery curtain of gas and ...

Explore the cosmos like never before with NASA James Webb’s breathtaking nebula images. Get ready to be mesmerized!

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...

That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide), we see a ...

A new Webb image shows a new view of the gorgeous Flame Nebula, an emission nebula located in the constellation of Orion. This nebula is a busy stellar nursery, with many new stars being formed there.

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