Here’s how it works. This beautiful space wallpaper is a composite image combining a new infrared view of the Crab Nebula, obtained with ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory, with an optical image ...

This cool space wallpaper shows an ESO Very Large Telescope image of the planetary nebula Fleming 1 in the constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur). New observations suggest that a very rare pair ...

Ever wish you could own your very own nebula? Well, if you happen to own a 3D printer, these massive interstellar clouds can be all yours. A team of NASA astronomers have come together to create ...

Kastner said tracking the velocities and locations of those molecules, which were thrown out by the dying, sun-like star that ...

“When I first saw the Cat’s Eye Nebula, I was astounded by its beautiful, perfectly symmetric structure. I was even more surprised that its 3D structure was not fully understood,” said lead ...

Many 3D shapes can be figured out just by looking carefully the structures in nebula, such as dark nebulae must be at front of the emission nebulae in order to show up etc… the general structure ...

NASA has released a stunning 3D video showing what it would look like to fly through the famous 'Pillars of Creation' nebula. The very first images of the nebula, located around 6,500 light-years ...