This image takes up an area in the sky equivalent to four full moons, but is actually part of an even larger nebula called Gum ... of hydrogen gas and glow in red tone because of the intense ...

Although its mission is over, NEOWISE still has much to share with the astronomical community, including these stunning new ...

The Red Spider Nebula harbors one of the hottest stars known, which heats the gas around it to form shockwaves 62 billion miles (100 billion km) high. These waves form the spider-leg-like arcs in ...

Formed from expanded shells of gases, the nebula is powered by two massive stars, each with a mass over 20 times greater than our sun. The image was taken at the Dark Sky Alqueva Observatory in ...

The giant red nebula (NGC 2014) and its smaller blue neighbor (NGC 2020) are part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, 163,000 light ...

For many sky enthusiasts, the Ring Nebula is a well-known object that is visible all summer long and is located in the constellation Lyra. A small telescope will already reveal the characteristic ...