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 ...

However, a prominent dark ring appearing "a little to the north of the ‘St. Lawrence River' region" - treating the North America Nebula as a map of its namesake - attracted his attention.

For over forty years, astronomers have been baffled by X-rays from the white dwarf at the center of the Helix Nebula. A white ...

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

That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide), we see a ...

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 ...

In anticipation of the upcoming 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/Hubble is kicking off the ...

This image of the Helix Nebula, released on March 4, 2025, shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at the nebula's center ...