A new composite image of the Crab Nebula features X-rays from Chandra (blue and white), optical data from Hubble (purple), ...

The medium size planetary nebula is the final stage of a medium-sized star. The intimidating Tarantula Nebulae is located around 1,61,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.

From sparkling brilliance of the Westerlunds, to the stunning view of the Milky Way's galactic center, check out these 10 ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. This composite image shows the star-forming region 30 Doradus, also ...

New Tarantula Nebula observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are combined with imagery from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the Visible and Infrared Survey ...

Creepy and spindly, the Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus) is the brightest and biggest region of star formation in the group of galaxies closest to the Milky Way. If you find its nickname unfitting ...

Glowing brightly about 160 000 light-years away, the Tarantula Nebula is the most spectacular feature of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. This image from VLT Survey ...

Astronomers focused the James Webb Space Telescope on the Tarantula Nebula, one of the brightest and most active star-forming regions in our galactic backyard, and found thousands of young stars ...

The Tarantula Nebula: Only 161,000 light years from Earth, this is a place where thousands of stars were born It was the $10bn gift to the world. A machine that would show us our place in the ...

The object can be found 320 light years away from Earth, a distance equivalent to the size of the Tarantula's Nebula and it was uncovered by Maritza Soto, a Ph.D student in the Astronomy Department of ...