A nebula rages in space with brilliant hues of red and blue. This wide field view covers an area of the sky slightly larger ...
This image takes up an area in the sky equivalent to four full moons, but is actually part of an even larger nebula called ...
Although its mission is over, NEOWISE still has much to share with the astronomical community, including these stunning new ...
Venus dazzles as the "Evening Star," Jupiter reaches its brightest for the year, and the Geminid meteor shower peaks under challenging moonlit skies.
The red hue is evidence of ionized hydrogen ... from the massive O-class stars embedded in the cloud. Finding a nebula in the ...
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 ...
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 ...