Nebula
The Webb Image you’ve Been Waiting For: the Orion Nebula
This is it, folks. Feast your eyes! It's what we've been training for—seeing the James Webb Space Telescope's first detailed…
Wow! Here's Webb's View of the Tarantula Nebula
Here’s the Tarantula Nebula like we've never seen it before. The James Webb Space Telescope turned its detectors towards the…
Brand New Stars in the Orion Nebula, Seen by Hubble
The Orion Nebula is a giant cloud of gas and dust that spans more than 20,000 times the size of…
Thanks to Gaia, Astronomers are Able to Map Out Nebulae in 3D
In this 2D image of nebulae in the Orion Molecular Complex, the submillimetre-wavelength glow of dust clouds is overlaid on…
Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A is Lopsided
Cassiopeia A is the remnant of a supernova that exploded 11,000 light-years away. The light from the exploding star likely…
Latest Hubble Image Shows the Star-Forming Chamaeleon Cloud
Stars form inside vast collections of molecular hydrogen called molecular clouds, sometimes called stellar nurseries or star forming regions. Instabilities…
Astronomers Discover a Totally New Kind of Nebula
Most Universe Today readers are familiar with nebulae. They're gaseous structures lit up with radiation from nearby stars, and they're…
Colliding Gases at the Heart of the Running Man Nebula
New images of the Running Man Nebula taken by Hubble provide insight into how young stars and debris disks are…
This is a Classic Example of a Reflection Nebula, Where the Reflected Light From Young Hot Stars Illuminates a Protostellar Cloud of Gas and Dust
The interplay of energy and matter creates beautiful sights. Here on Earth, we enjoy rainbows, auroras, and sunsets and sunrises.…
Apparently, This Nebula Looks Like Godzilla. Do you see it?
We’ve written often about how pareidolia -- the human tendency to see faces or other features in random images --…