Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 ...

The Dark Wolf Nebula, 5,300 light-years from us, resembles a dark void into which stars vanish; but this structure is the site not of star death, but star birth.

Halloween is here, and there is no better way to celebrate than with a blood-curdling image of the Dark Wolf Nebula looking like a cosmic werewolf poised to grab an unwitting victim.

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope ... Located around 5,300 light-years from Earth, ...

Found in the constellation Scorpius, near the centre of the Milky Way on the sky, the Dark Wolf Nebula is located around 5300 light-years from Earth.

The Dark Wolf Nebula's nebulous apparition wouldn't be visible without its bright background, which appears blood red in this image. These clouds are shrouds of hydrogen gas and dust, actively ...

New image captures a ‘dark wolf’ in the cosmic sky Dark nebulae are cold clouds of cosmic dust, so dense that they obscure the light of stars and other objects behind them.

Astronomers have unveiled an image of a giant cloud of space gas and dust that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop. Nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, the ...

Inside the bright but unassumingly named nebula Gum 55 lies a dark nebula — a rift of dust grains that absorb visible light — creating a swatch of darkness against the glow of bright gas.