A huge bipolar outflow of gas and dust, grown from the tumultuous birth of a double-star system, has formed a cosmic hourglass — and the James Webb Space Telescope imaged the scene in splendiferous ...

Submillimeter wavelength radio observations of the Southern Ring Nebula have identified that it's actually a double ring, shaped by the interactions of three stars. When you purchase through links on ...

The world's largest telescope captured a deep-space nebula — an interstellar cloud of gas and dust that can produce new stars — in stunning detail, providing the first close-up view to date of the ...

The Lagoon Nebula (M8), located approximately 4,100 light-years away in Sagittarius, is visible to the naked eye under dark skies. Giovanni Battista Hodierna first documented the nebula in 1654, ...

The Ring Nebula is perhaps one of the most photographed objects in the night sky, dating back to its first image in 1886. Its intrinsic structure has been debated for as long as it has been observed.

Astronomers recalculated the Crab Nebula supernova explosion date using proper motion measurements of its debris over 17 years, employing images from the Subaru Telescope. The study focused on a faint ...

Incredibly enough, it’s been 29 years since the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. In 1990 the telescope was launched into low Earth orbit, where it has remained for nearly three decades collecting ...

The decades-long mystery of a never-ending explosion of X-rays around the remains of a dead star may have finally been solved. The radiation probably originates from the scorching-hot wreckage left ...