A gorgeous nebula turns out to hold a surprise at its center: a pair of stars that don’t match as they should. Researchers looking at the beautiful NGC 6164/6165 nebula were surprised to learn that ...

The Orion Nebula has long been one of humankind's most studied regions of space. Now, though, James Webb has given us a look at the Orion Nebula that we've never been given before. Where Hubble and ...

This Hubble image shows ESO 455-10, a planetary nebula located in the constellation of Scorpius. The color image is composed of near-infrared and optical observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 ...

When astronomers looked at a stellar pair at the heart of a stunning cloud of gas and dust, they were in for a surprise. Star pairs are typically very similar, like twins, but in HD 148937, one star ...

NGC 6891 is a bright, asymmetrical planetary nebula. It is made from gas that has been ionized by the central white dwarf star, stripping electrons from hydrogen atoms in the nebula. The glowing gas ...

Astronomers have released a new view of the Cat’s Eye Nebula using Hubble and Euclid telescopes, revealing complex gas shells ...

NGC 2024, or the Flame Nebula, is a large star-forming region that makes up part of the Orion constellation and resides roughly 1,400 light-years away from Earth. Besides the Flame Nebula, the Orion ...

NGC 6302, in the Milky Way’s Scorpius constellation, spans two light-years, with glowing gas expelled from a star 2200 years ago. This towering structure in the Eagle Nebula is a 9.5 light-year-high ...

For a long time, this cosmic structure was thought to be a star, until 1751, when Nicolas Louis de Lacaille discovered its true form. Located about 159,800 light-years from Earth on the edge of the ...

The Very Large Telescope in Chile provides what may be our best look ever at a stunningly beautiful nebula that defies its namesake. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the serious and silly sides ...

The Ring Nebula is a common image in astronomy, but new images from Hubble reveal something rather strange inside the cloud of swirling gas. These new images, captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, ...