A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

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The largest digital camera ever built has released its first shots of the universe. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on ...

The 100 light-year-long form of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) can be found dominating the lower section of Meyer's image, with the dense starfield near the Milky Way's core serving as a backdrop for ...

Featuring never-before-seen views of galaxies and more than 2,100 newly discovered asteroids, the observations are only a ...

This image combines 678 separate images taken by NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in just over seven hours of observing time. Combining many images in this way clearly reveals otherwise faint or ...

The Lagoon Nebula is a stellar nursery, a region in space where new stars are constantly being formed. Located around 4,000 light years away, this nebula sits near the constellation Sagittarius ...

The Lagoon Nebula was discovered by Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna in 1654, when he described it as a nebulosa. Today we know the Lagoon Nebula (NGC 6523) is rather an embedded open ...

Hubble previously imaged the Lagoon Nebula in one of its most famous photos, which was shared to celebrate the telescope’s 28th anniversary. This image also showed just a part of the full nebula ...

Meyer captured the ancient light cast out by the Lagoon and Trifid Nebula over 34 hours in May 2025, while observing under the near-pristine dark skies of Arizona, a little north of Ash Fork.