Everybody Loves a Cluster with a Nebula This is NGC 2264, the Cone Nebula, and the Christmas Tree Cluster. The bright stars ...

The Horsehead Nebula is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The stunning image is captured by James Webb Space Telescope. The stunning image of NGC 9524 is captured by Hubble Space ...

Each week, Astronomy magazine Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich, a master at explaining how to observe, posts a podcast about three objects or events you can see in the sky.

If you can see that object easily, then try for the wonder many observers consider the ultimate challenge object — the Horsehead Nebula. This dark protrusion sits in front of emission nebula IC ...

The team determined the nebula to have an ellipsoidal shape using Submillimeter Array (SMA) radio-wavelength mapping of emission from carbon monoxide (CO) gas. The CO emission reveals cold, molecular ...

The soft light from a nebula may also come from the ambient radiation released by the nebular cloud itself. This type of cosmic cloud is known as an emission nebula. One of the most famous is the ...

The Ring Nebula as captured in visible light by Hubble Space Telescope (left); in radio emission from carbon monoxide ...

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth’s point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...

At a time where many distracted themselves by looking down, maybe at a screen or a new bread recipe, fifth-year physics ...