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 ...
Strangely enough, Medvedev describes the Crab Pulsar as having a zebra pattern because its emissions exhibit an unusual band ...
A glowing nebula located approximately 2,700 light-years from Earth resembles a guitar with a bright pulsar at the tip of the ...
This Hubble image, captured with the Wide Field Camera 3, shows NGC 1866, a star cluster made up of hundreds of thousands of stars bound by gravity. The image shows two massive stars, WR 25 and ...
New images of the massive structure is helping astronomers identify the tune being played by the celestial guitar.
The Tarantula Nebula—also called 30 Doradus—is ... making the region perfect for studying how gas clouds collapse under gravity to form new stars. "What makes 30 Doradus unique is that it ...
This gorgeous image shows a fiery stunner called the Rosette Nebula that ... matter through gravity until these clumps ...
The Carina Nebula is home to a million of stars. The image has been formed with ... which can get pulled together into clumps by gravity. Eventually, a clump will get so big that it collapses ...
Stars like our Sun are originally formed from a nebula. A nebula is a giant cloud of mainly hydrogen gas and dust in space. Gravity pulled a lot of the gas and dust together and a protostar formed.