A stunning image of a distant nebula has been taken using the Very Large Telescope. The Cone Nebula, located 2,700 light-years away in the constellation of Monoceros (the Unicorn), is huge in size at ...

A breathtaking new image of the famous Eagle Nebula captures a towering pillar of gas and dust sculpted by intense stellar radiation. The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, is located about 6,500 ...

As part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency (ESA) is sharing a new image series revisiting stunning, previously released Hubble targets with the addition of the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A vast stellar nursery in the Eagle Nebula is seen as a towering spire of gas and dust through ...

The Cone Nebula is part of a star-forming region of space, NGC 2264, about 2500 light-years away. Its pillar-like appearance is a perfect example of the shapes that can develop in giant clouds of cold ...

NASA has released new images showing the fascinating structure dubbed a 'pillar of creation'. The image captures an enormous cosmic tower which measures nearly 10 light-years tall in the Eagle Nebula ...

This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, which is even more dramatic ...

It is an astonishing new view of a unique nebula. Researchers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of ...

Three huge intersecting dark lanes of interstellar dust make the Trifid Nebula one of the most recognizable and striking star birth regions in the night sky. The dust, silhouetted against glowing gas ...

NASA’s most recent James Webb Space Telescope images of the Pillars of Creation, better known to astronomers as M16 in the Eagle Nebula, are enough to leave most anyone speechless. The iconic first ...

(Credit: NASA / ESA / SSI) One of the most massive star systems in our galaxy is giving astronomers clues toward how stars can disrupt new stellar formation. Newborn stars promptly start blasting away ...