The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured ...

The nebula is classified as both a reflection nebula, as it is reflecting the light of a nearby star — and as an emission nebula, as it releases radiation.

This spectacular star-forming region is one of the first images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

Learn more about how the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture more of our stunning universe.

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

The Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant nebula. Blue in the filaments in the outer part of the nebula represents neutral oxygen, green is singly-ionized sulfur, and red indicates doubly-ionized oxygen.

This is a reflection nebula in that it consists largely of clouds of interstellar gas that reflect the light of nearby stars. The nebula is relatively close to Earth, as celestial objects go, at ...

It’s one of the most common words used by astronomers—and two of them featured in the James Webb Space Telescope’s debut image package—but do you know what a nebula is?

NGC 7129 is a reflection nebula (Image Credit: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona) As we continue to break new ground in the field of cosmology, the importance of carefully ...

The glowing nebula IC 2220, nicknamed the Toby Jug Nebula owing to its resemblance to an old English drinking vessel, is a rare astronomical find. This reflection nebula, located about 1200 light ...

Greetings stargazers. Many scientific terms are very specific, but the term nebula is, well, nebulous. In a very generic sense, it simply means a fuzzy thing. But there are a wide variety of ...