There's often at least one star at the core of a nebula, whether new or recently deceased, but sometimes a giant molecular cloud turns up starless but sporting its own subtle glow. Astronomers ...

The Crab Nebula features a neutron star at its center that has formed into ... Next, Medvedev said his theory can be tested with collection of more data from the Crab Pulsar and fine-tuned by ...

The Universe is full of dust, and a striking new image from the Hubble Space Telescope highlights just how important it is.

Gum 41, a radiant nebula in the southern sky, glows due to powerful radiation from a pair of massive stars at its core. This ...

We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky." One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a ...

The theory revolves around "photo erosion ... This idea fits because the star-forming Orion nebula is replete with hot and massive OB stars. "We are using quite an old idea - that radiation ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. This composite image shows the star-forming region 30 Doradus, also ...

In theory it worked in any of type galaxy ... the sun is almost exactly the lowest mass star that still produces a visible, though faint, planetary nebula. Stars even a few per cent smaller do not.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and busiest star-creating areas in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.