New images show the rapidly rotating pulsar of the "Guitar Nebula" shooting out a gigantic cosmic plume of plasma, X-rays and ...

A glowing nebula located approximately 2,700 light-years from Earth resembles a guitar with a bright pulsar at the tip of the ...

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

While NASA's NEOWISE telescope ended its journey through space on Nov. 1, 2024, the team at IPAC, a science center at Caltech ...

The cosmos is a realm of infinite beauty, and NASA's advanced telescopes and space missions have captured some of the most ...

Captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the stars in open cluster KMHK 1231 are loosely bound by gravity and surrounded by crimson gas and dust of the nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

WOH G64 is what's known as a red giant, a star nearing the end of its life, running out of hydrogen fuel. Through this ...

NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) detected the magnetic field streamlines shown over this image of the Keyhole Nebula, part of the larger Carina Nebula, captued by the ...

NASA, on November 20, 2024, released a movie featuring a “flame-throwing” guitar-shaped nebula located about 6,500 light ...

The star is a red supergiant (like the famous Betelgeuse) and it sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that contains some 30 billion stars. As the star has spat gas and dust into its ...

Edwin Hubble's revelation in 1924 that the Andromeda Nebula was, in fact, an 'island universe,' was a pivotal moment in our ...

Scientists have taken a close-up picture of a star apparently in its death throes, surrounded by gas and dust as it heads ...