This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula.

Explore the cosmos like never before with NASA James Webb’s breathtaking nebula images. Get ready to be mesmerized!

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed a planetary nebula designated Messier 57 (also known as NGC 6720), dubbed the Ring Nebula. As a result, ...

Emission nebulae are glowing, spread-out clouds of ionized gas that shine with their own light. In this image of NGC 2313, the bright star V565 at the center lights up a silvery curtain of gas and ...

We often think of space as a yawning chasm of nothingness ... species had previously been detected in a part of the Cat's Paw Nebula, also called NGC 63341, and in IRAS 16293, a binary system ...

This near-infrared image of a portion of the Flame Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope highlights three low-mass objects, seen in the insets to the right. These objects, which are much ...

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

A new view of the Helix Nebula reveals a dying white dwarf star at the nebula's center. This star's violent eating habits could be responsible for strange X-ray emissions in the region.

A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared light view from NASA's ...

has formed a cosmic hourglass — and the James Webb Space Telescope imaged the scene in splendiferous detail. How does the birth of stars form a nebula like this? Well, stars grow by accreting ...