Nebula are giant clouds of interstellar gas that play a key role in the life-cycle of stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...

In their dying throes, some stars leave behind beautiful planetary nebulae — disk, spiral or even butterfly-shaped clouds of dust and gas (SN: 5/17/18). How these fantastically shaped clouds arise ...

As we continue to break new ground in the field of cosmology, the importance of carefully categorizing the objects we see comes into focus. Part of this stems from the fact that, increasingly, we find ...

This emission nebula in the constellation Taurus the Bull, cataloged as NGC 1554/55, combines two objects in one. At least, it used to. Observers call NGC 1555 Hind’s Variable Nebula. They call NGC ...

Located in the Sagittarius-Carina arm of the Milky Way a mere 7,500 light years from Earth, the Carina Nebula is one of the best places to study how massive stars live and die. Smithsonian ...

Images of two iconic planetary nebulae taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are revealing new information about how they develop their dramatic features. Researchers from Rochester Institute of ...

Hubble’s newest view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2835 adds a stunning twist to a familiar sight. By capturing light in a special wavelength called H-alpha, astronomers have revealed glowing pink nebulae ...

A bright pink koi fish has been spotted swimming across the southern sky. The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) VLT Survey Telescope (VST) snapped a beautiful new view of the Gum 3 nebula, located ...

This image, obtained during the late commissioning phase of the GeMS adaptive optics system with the Gemini South AO Imager on Dec. 28, reveals exquisite details on the outskirts of the Orion Nebula.