Julie Machado from Auckland, New Zealand The Gum Nebula is the largest emission nebula by apparent size, spanning 36° of the ...

A new picture shows a nebula 2,500 light-years away in spectacular detail. The Cone Nebula was snapped by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. This is one of the largest ...

The world's largest telescope captured a deep-space nebula — an interstellar cloud of gas and dust that can produce new stars — in stunning detail, providing the first close-up view to date of the ...

A close-up of the "mane" of the Horsehead Nebula, located some 1,300 light-years from Earth. This view was captured by the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument. NASA, ESA, CSA, K.

The region is home to some of the hottest and most massive stars that astronomers have discovered to date. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

At the heart of this bipolar nebula is a white dwarf star that cast aside its outer layers of gas long ago. It is 2,500 to ...

Detailed images of the Orion Nebula were captured by the James Webb telescope. Production of the images involved over 100 scientists from 18 countries, per AFP. The study of the nebula helps ...

A nebula is a luminescent giant cloud of dust and gas in space that could be from a supernova or could be a star-forming region. The "dumbbell nebula," also known as Messier 27, is what astronomers ...