Once mistaken for a fuzzy star cluster, the stunning Squid Galaxy—formally known as Messier 77—has transformed in the eyes of ...

With its origins tracing back to the 1970s, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery on ...

The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world ...

The image reveals the galaxy’s central core, where clusters of older stars emit blue ... captures a reflection nebula where gas and dust cascade in shades of pink, purple, and white, illuminated ...

On winter evenings, Orion is one of the easiest star patterns to find in the sky. Its identifying feature is a row of three stars which make up the belt of the legendary hunter, Orion. Above the ...

(Beverly Lynds was an astronomer who catalogued both bright nebulas – BN – and dark nebulas – DN – in the 1960s) How does the birth of stars form a nebula like this? Well, stars grow by ...

As a result, they found that the central star of this nebula is surrounded by a dusty ring. The finding was detailed in a paper published April 1 on the arXiv preprint server. Planetary nebulae ...