The Crab Nebula has been one of astronomy’s most scrutinized objects for nearly a millennium, yet Hubble’s first fresh look ...

A color rendition of NGC 6302, the Butterfly Nebula, created from black-and-white exposures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2019 and 2020. In the violet-colored regions, strong stellar winds ...

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Every star you see in the night sky forms from a nebula, which is a large region of dust and gas in space. One such nebula, the Lagoon Nebula, is visible with binoculars or small telescopes and is ...

A little more than 969 years ago—on July 4, 1054, to be precise—light reached Earth from one of the universe's most energetic and violent events: a supernova, or an exploding star. We now know that ...

Stargazers can see the "Dumbbell Nebula" in the night sky in August The nebula will appear within a pattern of stars known as the Summer Triangle With a six-planet alignment already coming up Aug. 10, ...