It's named Eos, after the Greek goddess of the dawn, and contains approximately 3,400 solar masses worth of gas.

From sparkling galaxies to gargantuan nebulae spanning thousands of light years across, check out these 7 rare images of ...

The Orion Nebula (M42) and Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) may reign supreme among star-forming regions in the Milky Way, but they ...

A sparkling cloudscape is revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope, which used its instruments to capture multiple wavelengths ...

NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer telescopes captured NGC 6240, two galaxies colliding in a rare pre-merger stage, surrounded by foreground stars. NGC 2467, discovered in the 19th century, is a huge ...

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

This strange nebula, which sports a very long name, was discovered in 1977 and has changed dramatically over time.

The way that Hubble images are produced is similar to how the James Webb Space Telescope uses filters and combines these to create stunning pictures of otherwise invisible objects, a process which ...

The National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a stunning glimpse into the 'dark nebula' known as the Circinus West molecular cloud, a region of space that's so dense with gas that ...

Within this stellar nursery's opaque boundaries, infant stars ignite within cold, dense gas and dust, while outflows hurtle leftover material into space ... name dark nebulae. The cloud's ...