The evocative scene captures the swirling gas of the nebula Sh2-132, known as the Lion Nebula, located around 10,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cepheus, which you ...

The Gemini South telescope in Chile captured this stunning view of NGC 6302, highlighting the nebula’s intricate structure ...

The fourth day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features a cluster of powerful infant stars blasting a ...

The twin telescopes of the Gemini Observatory mark 25 years of discovery as students name distant nebula Ua ʻŌhiʻa Lan.

This image of the Horsehead Nebula from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope focuses on a portion of the horse's "mane" that is about 0.8 light-years in width. It was taken with Webb's NIRCam ...

The Gemini South telescope is turning 25, and astronomers are celebrating its birthday with a dazzling new image of the ...

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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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope took an extreme close-up image of the famouse Horsehead Nebula. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / K. Misselt / A. Abergel A favorite celestial target is getting the James Webb ...

Recent images of the Horsehead Nebula are the sharpest infrared images ever, per the agency NASA Space aficionados are raving about the latest images released of a special horse-shaped nebula.

In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Hubble once again lifts the veil on a famous — and frequently photographed — supernova remnant: the Veil Nebula. ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sankrit One of the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has “caught” the Boomerang Nebula in these new images taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys. This reflecting cloud of dust and gas has two nearly symmetric lobes (or ...