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 ...

Nebulae are some of the most beautiful structures to be found in space: vast clouds of dust and gas that are illuminated by light from nearby stars. These regions are often busy sites of star ...

NASA has detected an odd 'cosmic pomegranate' that is firing near-perfect spheres out of the Cranium Nebula. What is causing ...

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The Flame Nebula or NGC 2024 is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400 light-years from Earth. Hubble studied this nebula to look for protoplanetary disks, or ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning new images of the Ring Nebula. The images were released Thursday by an international team of astronomers, including three from the Canadian Western ...

In new, high-resolution imagery of the star-forming region, scientists spotted worlds that defied explanation, naming them Jupiter Mass Binary Objects. An infrared composite image of the inner Orion ...

The Cat's Paw Nebula, also catalogued as NGC 6334 and sometimes called the Bear Claw Nebula ...

This composite image shows the star-forming region 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula. The background image, taken in the infrared, is itself a composite: it was captured by the HAWK-I ...

A dramatic new image of the Cone Nebula shows the pillar-like cloud of cold, star-forming molecular gas and dust in unprecedented detail. The nebula gets its name from its conical shape and is located ...