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

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

Laman Ismayilova Read more Forget chocolates and roses this Valentine's Day. NASA is offering a gift of truly cosmic ...

Easily visible to the naked eye, with a magnitude of 4. , where new stars are being born from the gas and dust. The intense ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

This is NGC 2264, the Cone Nebula, and the Christmas Tree Cluster. The bright stars that appear to lie upon this nebula are part of the Christmas Tree Cluster. The cluster contains more than 600 stars ...

Some of his favorite subjects include the Orion Nebula (1,500 light-years away) and the Andromeda Galaxy (2.5 million light-years from our solar system). Scheben, 65, retired as a salesman for ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of the Orion Nebula, highlighting two young protostars, HOPS 150 and HOPS 153. These protostars are actively shaping their surroundings ...

The Tarantula Nebula is also known as NGC 2070 or 30 Doradus. Its bright glow was first recorded by French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in 1751. At its heart are some of the most massive stars ...

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 ...