This a planetary nebula, which is formed when a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. Orion Nebula: Believed to be the ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its ...

The JWST’s latest images showcase LBN 483, a nebula shaped by dynamic stellar interactions and magnetic fields.

Euclid has two instruments: its visible light camera, VIS, and its near-infrared light camera, NISP. NISP allows Euclid to ...

The Pleiades, Ptolemy's Cluster, the Large Magellanic Cloud — here's how to center the sky's brightest deep-sky wonders in ...

A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous spiral galaxy bursting with new star formation.

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) team has captured the clearest images of the universe in its earliest stages—when it ...

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe’s infancy from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope show the first steps ...

Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula. A huge bipolar outflow of gas and dust, grown from the tumultuous birth of ...