Nebulae are vast clouds of gas and dust, sometimes reaching sizes of light years, marking the creation sites of new stars and marking the deathbeds of old stars.

Stunning James Webb Space Telescope images reveal new details about a pair of mysterious infrared rings around planetary ...

After NASA repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999, the Heritage Project used the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 to capture an image of NGC 1999 in the Orion constellation. Hubble's image of NGC ...

As astronomers scanned the night sky with larger telescopes, they were intrigued by fuzzy patches of light called nebulae. Toward the end of the 18th century, astronomer William Herschel used star ...

This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years away. These opaque, dark knots of gas and dust called "Bok globules" are ...

Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of a nearby ...

The universe showcases its beauty through nebulae, vibrant cosmic clouds of gas and dust illuminated by stars, offering mesmerizing visuals in dazzling colors. The Orion Nebula, 1,344 light-years ...

The agency is encouraging astronomy clubs to throw “star parties” to introduce people to the nebulae and galaxies spotted by Hubble in its decades of operation.

Wilson Observatory in California, where he would work for the rest of his life. He was researching nebulae, fuzzy patches of light in the sky. In 1924, he announced the discovery of a Cepheid ...