Check out the never-seen hues of the nebulae with bright star formation and newborn stars captured by NASA James Webb Space ...

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. This Hubble ...

Improvements to astrophotography finally brought to light a feature in the constellation Cygnus that wasn’t obvious to the ...

American astronomer Beverly Turner Lynds died peacefully Oct. 5, 2024 at a hospice in Portland, Oregon, after suffering a ...

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Credit: T.A.Rector (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) & Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA) Nebulae are all but impossible to spot in the night sky, but you'd never know it. Through a telescope, they make the ...

NASA’s exploration of nebulas, including unique structures like the ’eye’ star and Westerlund 1, provides insights into star ...

Abstract: We present 3.6, 4.5, 5.8 and 8 μm mapping, images and profiles for 13 Macquarie/Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO)/Strasbourg (MASH) and MASH II planetary nebulae (PNe). Most of these ...

Herbig-Haro objects (commonly known as HH objects) are nebulae associated with newly formed stars. These nebulae have a very short lifespan, on the order of a few thousand years, and form through the ...

The article explains star formation from gas and dust in nebulae to protostars igniting nuclear fusion. It covers the lifecycle of stars, detailing their evolution into red giants or supernovae.

For the last few years we really embraced astronomy – and in particular astrophotography where we capture images of deep sky ...