The Hubble Space Telescope revisits a star-forming region 5,000 light-years from Earth, which it first captured in 1997, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured its first set of striking images of the Ring Nebula (M57), revealing detail and intricate features of the final stages of a dying star. Located about ...

The Hubble Space Telescope revisited the Trifid Nebula to snap a new image that NASA shared to celebrate the 36th anniversary ...

Out in the cosmic landscape, planetary nebulas would offer the perfect Halloween doors to knock on. They're spooky tricksters in their names, as they have nothing to do with planets at all and are ...

The Horsehead Nebula is one of the most iconic spectacles in astronomy, having been imaged and photographed from a myriad of telescopic instruments, including amateur telescopes, ground-based ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has gazed at the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. Since the recording of this energetic event in 1054 CE ...

On Feb. 22, 1971, a sounding rocket lifted off from Wallops Island, Virginia, with specialized sensors aimed at the Crab Nebula, a bright cosmic object 6,500 light-years away. In those days, before ...

NASA is celebrating the Hubble Telescope’s 36th birthday with stunning images of the Trifid Nebula, nearly 5,000 light-years ...

The latest portrait of the Egg Nebula turns a fleeting stellar death into something almost architectural, revealing nested shells, sharp-edged beams and delicate ripples carved into space. Built from ...

A gorgeous new image of a distant nebula has been captured by the European Southern Observatory (ESO)’s VLT Survey Telescope. It shows part of the Sh2-284 nebula, a rarely imaged but stunning cloud of ...

This image of the Crab Nebula combines data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) in magenta and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in dark purple. Credits: X-ray (IXPE: NASA), (Chandra: ...