They turned to a device in Hawaii called the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI), which detects light in the visible spectrum. Different colors move with different amounts of energy.

Try to observe this difficult deep-sky object. In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and try to observe a celestial object that’s quite difficult to see — the Horsehead Nebula.

The slow decay of the star created much of the solar material visible in the new images. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date.

Location of the crab nebula in the constellation Taurus. (Image credit: Stellarium) Swiftly whirling . In November 1968, the core of the exploded star which gave rise to the material found in the ...

Some 1,350 light-years from Earth, astronomers detected strange pairs of unexplained objects orbiting in the Orion Nebula. Since then, about 12 months ago, other scientists have proposed a new ...