The distribution of matter in a nebula is not uniform; some areas are denser while others are thinner. Under the influence of ...

Massive stars in the Lobster Nebula carve dramatic shapes into cosmic dust while thousands of glittering young stars emerge ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States, in collaboration with the European Space Agency and other international organizations, has captured a breathtaking cosmic ...

Planetary Nebula NGC 6072 is a stunning cosmic "butterfly” which was first catalogued in 1837 by British astronomer John Herschel. However, recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just unveiled a new image of the Butterfly Nebula, and it isn’t just beautiful—it ...

The James Webb Space Telescope caught the birth of an enormous star with particle beams cutting across a stretch of ...

Images of two iconic planetary nebulae taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are revealing new information about how they develop their dramatic features. Researchers from Rochester Institute of ...

In 1993, when the Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the Orion nebula for the first time, its images provided a substantial boost for the argument that stars with planetary systems are commonplace in the ...

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 ...

This spectacular image of the Orion Nebula, complete with its incredibly rich star-formation region, ... More was obtained from multiple exposures using the HAWK-I infrared camera on ESO’s Very Large ...

Images of two iconic planetary nebulae taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are revealing new information about how they develop their dramatic features. Images of two iconic planetary nebulae taken by ...