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 ...

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 ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. 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 ...

Located 161,000 light-years away from Earth, the Tarantula Nebula has long been a favorite for astronomers studying star formation. Now, we've been given an even better look at the beautiful nebula ...

Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled by Hubble Space Telescope. The picture is composited from a mosaic of 15 separate fields, covers an area of sky about 5% the area covered by ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. NGC 6891 exists in the constellation Delphinus, or the Dolphin, and is a bright, asymmetrical planetary nebula. NGC 6891 is a bright, asymmetrical ...

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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 ...

These looping, twisting tendrils of gas are the debris cloud from a tremendous cosmic explosion – an explosion whose light may have been visible to the last Neanderthals on Earth 40,000 years ago.

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 ...

Perhaps our sun will produce something as beautiful as the Cat's Eye Nebula. X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI It’s inevitable; in about 5 billion years our sun will burn up all of the hydrogen ...