The James Webb Space Telescope, a collaborative effort between NASA, the ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), has revealed…
Over 6,000 light-years from Earth, an open star cluster and its nebula cover a swathe of sky over 270 light-years…
The birth of a star is a spectacular event that plays out behind a veil of gas and dust. It's…
The Orion Nebula is one of the brightest star-forming regions in the sky, easily visible in a small telescope. But…
Twenty thousand years ago, a star in the constellation Cygnus went supernova. Like all supernovae, the explosion released a staggering…
The Gemini South telescope has captured a new image of the glowing nebula IC 2220. Nicknamed the Toby Jug Nebula,…
A stellar nursery sounds like a placid place where baby stars go about their business undisturbed. But, of course, a…
The Tarantula Nebula is a star formation region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Tarantula is about 160,000 light-years away…
A high-school student and an international team of astronomers created the first-ever map of the Horsehead Nebula's magnetic field.
When it comes to cosmic eye candy, planetary nebulae are at the top of the candy bowl. Like fingerprints—or maybe…