The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has unveiled its first close-up image of the cosmos, offering an extraordinary new perspective ...

Planetary nebulae have nothing to do with planets. They simply appeared kinda like planets in telescopes long ago, their ...

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a colorful view of the famous Trifid and Lagoon nebulas illuminated from within by ...

This new space wallpaper of the reflection nebula Messier 78 was captured using the Wide Field Imager camera on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just headed into its second year in service, and recently recorded new images of the Ring Nebula named Messier 57.This nebula is about 2,600 light-years ...

The Dumbbell Nebula was the first planetary nebula that Charles Messier cataloged. This image combines data from Hydrogen-alpha and Oyxgen-III filters for a total exposure of just over 11 hours.

Two different views of the Horsehead Nebula. On the right is a view of the nebula in visible light, taken using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile (eso0202a).

The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, is more than 2,000 light years away, in the Lyra constellation. Discovered in 1779 by a French astronomer , it doesn't take a fancy instrument for an ...

The scavenger hunt is not yet complete—the Hubble Messier Catalog currently exhibits images of 84 of the 110 Messier objects and plots them on an interactive map—but that’s partly because of ...

Messier 57's white dwarf is visible as a small white dot in the new images: The brightest star here is the dying, extremely hot central star. It has used up all its fuel and is now cooling down.