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.

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.

In a stunning astronomical spectacle, a nebula was spotted in UAE skies by photographers of the Emirates Astronomy Society (EAS) in the eastern mountainous regions of the country. The Crescent ...

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 ...