The Dark Energy Camera imaged the Rosette Nebula, capturing a kaleidoscope of color created by the star cluster born within ...
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The Crab Nebula is an expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event nearly 1,000 years ago in 1054 AD, as likely ...
These smudges of color become troves of scientific data. Take for example the Orion Nebula. Forming the middle "star" in Orion's sword, the Orion Nebula is the only nebula visible to the ...
Rigel illuminates the Witch Head Nebula in the constellation Orion. NASA / STScI Digitized Sky Survey / Noel Carboni This relatively young, blue star is the brightest one in the constellation ...
When astronomers zoomed in on the the Orion Nebula, located about 1,350 light-years from Earth, they found more than a dazzling starscape. Nestled in an infant star system there, JWST detected ...
Sirius, in the constellation Canis Major, is the brightest star in the sky. It’s twice as massive as the Sun. Canopus, the ...
This stunning portrait of a star-forming nebula is a throwback to the birth of our own sun, 4.6 billion years ago. The Rosette Nebula blossoms in deep space, captured in this wonderful image taken ...
The observations retained more data than Hubble's. The Orion Nebula sits 1,300 light-years away, but it's among the brightest nebulae in the night sky—you can even see it with the naked eye.