Located 2,500 to 3,800 light-years away in the Scorpius constellation, this nebula's unusual shape is a result of its central ...
NGC 6302, more romantically known as the Butterfly Nebula, was chosen by Chilean schoolchildren as the latest subject for ...
NASA has taken to its exoplanets X account to highlight an image captured by multiple of its telescopes, writing "something's watching". The space agency explains in its X post that it appears the ...
Oregon stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up throughout August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and even a visible nebula. A formation known as the "dumbbell nebula" ...
A stellar nursery bursts with bubbles, plankton paint the North Atlantic, jets stream from a galactic merger and more in our selections for this week's best space-related images. Even in space, hot ...
The evocative scene captures the swirling gas of the nebula Sh2-132, known as the Lion Nebula, located around 10,000 ...