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.

Travel about 2,500 light-year away in the constellation Vela to see James Webb Space Telescope stunning view of NGC 3132, the ...

This colliding pair of galaxies is known as ‘The Mice’.

Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302): Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across ...

Weeks after NASA's 1999 Hubble repair, the Hubble Heritage Project captured this image of NGC 1999, a nebula in Orion, using the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. This Hubble image shows RS Puppis, a ...

The galaxy filling the frame in this NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month is NGC 2566, a spiral ...

From the colourful mosaic of the Lagoon Nebula, to the famous Pillars of Creation, check out these 5 vivid images of Nebulae ...

This image taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows Spiral galaxy NGC 628 ... This star-forming region is located about 390 light-years from Earth. This image of Nebula NGC 1333 shows a nearby ...

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If you’re new to constellation identification, the best way to locate Taurus is to wait until the easily recognized ...