This image of the Crab Nebula combines data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) in magenta and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in dark purple. Scientists have mapped the iconic Crab ...

New images of the famous Ring Nebula from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are mesmerizing, with glowing rings of gas and wispy trails emanating from the core. We can see it more clarity than ever, ...

Gone are the days when the Ring Nebula looked sort of like a bagel, or a jelly doughnut, a massive astronomical blob holding the secrets of a dying star. The new images of the famous Ring Nebula from ...

Hubble Telescope image of the Horsehead Nebula. Credit: T.A.Rector (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) & Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA ...

The Webb Space Telescope has given us another cosmic treat. The young observatory captured a closer look of the ethereal clouds of dust and gas that form a nearby nebula, illuminated by a companion ...

The Horsehead Nebula is one of the most iconic spectacles in astronomy, having been imaged and photographed from a myriad of telescopic instruments, including amateur telescopes, ground-based ...

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