This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years away. These opaque, dark knots of gas and dust called "Bok globules" are ...

Little Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Messier 76, M76, or NGC 650/651) located 3,400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus. It is classified as a planetary nebula, an ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have observed enigmatic rings in the planetary nebula NGC 1514, ...

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You’ll find it marked as NGC 2237 on most star maps. The Rosette is one of the largest of the so-called “emission nebulae,” with a quantity of hydrogen gas and dust more than 10,000 times greater than ...

New research suggests that all five subregions of Africa will breach the 1.5 C climate change threshold -- the limit stipulated by the Paris Agreement -- by 2040 even under low emission scenarios.

In fact, all the many galaxies scattered through the sky were referred to as spiral nebulae. Even though a lot of them, of varying sizes, shapes, and orientations, were visible in the night sky ...

The red nebula is a merger of two massive emission nebulae. The nebula at the head position, NGC2327, and the nebula that appears to be the wings, IC2177, take on the shape of a seagull or duck.

California’s Clean Cars II program, approved during the Biden administration, requires that all new vehicles sold in the state be zero-emission by 2035. The rule is backed by special EPA waivers ...

NASA often shares images of nebulae, explaining the intricate complexities of the cosmos. This Hubble's image of gas and dust in the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula extends a better ...