The evocative scene captures the swirling gas of the nebula Sh2-132, known as the Lion Nebula, located around 10,000 ...

The Gemini South telescope is turning 25, and astronomers are celebrating its birthday with a dazzling new image of the ...

The Gemini South telescope in Chile captured this stunning view of NGC 6302, highlighting the nebula’s intricate structure ...

Located 2,500 to 3,800 light-years away in the Scorpius constellation, this nebula's unusual shape is a result of its central ...

Footage from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope that celebrates 35 years in space. Images of Mars, planetary nebula NGC 2899, ...

Fly about 2,600 light-years to Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Cygnus loop nebula. See images from 2001 and 2020.

Recent images of the Horsehead Nebula are the sharpest infrared images ever, per the agency NASA Space aficionados are raving about the latest images released of a special horse-shaped nebula.

Hubble’s new image shows the Calabash Nebula’s dying star blasting gas at immense speeds, revealing dramatic lobes, ...

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of the Butterfly Nebula, a grand and graceful cosmic wonder.

This image of the Horsehead Nebula from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope focuses on a portion of the horse's "mane" that is about 0.8 light-years in width. It was taken with Webb's NIRCam ...

The Red Spider Nebula gives us a possible preview of what might happen to our own Sun in about 5 billion years: as the Sun runs out of fuel, it may also swell into a red giant, shed its outer layers, ...

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