Messier 16, also known as the NGC 6611, and is known by the popular name of “The Eagle Nebula". M16 is a large diffuse emission nebula associated with a star cluster located about 5700 light ...

They were hardly modest, these two brash young scientists who in 1953 declared to patrons of the Eagle Pub in Cambridge ... X-rays bounced off its component parts. Franklin, a shy and inward ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration recently shared a mesmerising image of the ‘Pillars of Creation’ in the Eagle Nebula. Home to billions of new-borne stars, the Pillars of ...

So why do most of us still have these body parts and functions? It’s likely because they aren’t causing us any harm, explained Matthew Ravosa, the director of the Center for Functional Anatomy ...

increasing the bloated giant’s rotation rate until large parts of it spun outwards into space. This escaping ring of debris formed the Necklace Nebula, with particularly dense clumps of gas ...

Hubble’s image of the Eagle Nebula giving birth to stars. Via NASA. Much of the light that gets blocked is crucial to furthering our understanding of the universe because it allows us to measure ...