As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous ...

The nebula's iconic blue hue comes from the light of star Rigel, whose intense radiation and stellar winds interact with the ...

Shades of blue and purple come from the massive O-class stars embedded in the cloud. Finding a nebula in the sky is relatively easy, but sometimes what's visible through binoculars or an optical ...

The star which created the nebula was huge, at 20 times the mass of the sun, and its explosion was so epic it would have been brighter than Venus in the sky over Earth, despite being located 2,400 ...