The Tarantula Nebula—also called 30 Doradus—is about 160,000 light-years distant and a famous target for astrophotography. At its heart are some of the most massive stars known, a few with ...

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 ...

This towering structure in the Eagle Nebula is a 9.5 light-year-high column of gas and dust from a stellar nursery. This image shows N90, where bright young stars carve a cavity, with distant ...

Megeath Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the Orion Nebula in a new Hubble Space Telescope image. The recent photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures two of these ...

It's most readily identifiable dusty realms lie ... The post Observe the dark side of the famous Orion Nebula appeared first on Astronomy Magazine.

An international team of scientists has produced the clearest three-dimensional view yet of the Ring Nebula—one of the night sky's most iconic celestial objects. The Ring Nebula is perhaps one ...

This type of cosmic cloud is known as an emission nebula. One of the most famous is the Eagle Nebula, which contains the ...

Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the Orion Nebula in a new Hubble Space Telescope image. Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars ...