The nebula you see here is the result ... is left some 10,000 years after the star detonated in a blast that would have decimated anything in its path. The Veil Nebula is what is known as a ...

The star which created the nebula was huge ... The image shows just a small fraction of the Veil Nebula; if you could see the entire nebula without the aid of a telescope, it would be as wide ...

A new view of the Helix Nebula reveals a dying white dwarf star at the nebula's center. This star's violent eating habits ...

blasting the outer layers of the star into space. The gas and debris from this explosion, now expanding outward, make up the nebula that we see today. The Veil Nebula offers astronomers a unique ...

The Veil Nebula (a supernova remnant) is very difficult to photograph from light-polluted New Jersey. This image was made by combining three 25-minute exposures on Fuji Super HG 1600 taken with a 500 ...

When a star comes to the end of its life and dies, it can be an epic and destructive event, throwing out an explosion of heat and light — but it can create stunning new forms as well. A gorgeous new ...

Kohoutek 4-55 is a dazzling planetary nebula captured in vivid color by the Hubble Space Telescope. Formed by the dramatic ...

Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud of a young nebula alight with star formation on the hunt for "failed star" brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are stellar ...

This nebula is a busy stellar nursery, with many new stars being formed there. But it isn’t stars which researchers were interested in when they looked to the nebula — in this case ...

On winter evenings, Orion is one of the easiest star patterns to find in the sky. Its identifying feature is a row of three stars which make up the belt of the legendary hunter, Orion. Above the ...