One example is the Cosmic Bat Nebula, also known as NGC 1788, which is located 1,300 light-years away in the Orion constellation. In the image above, captured by the Very Large Telescope (VLT ...

sculpting the nebula. A huge bipolar outflow of gas and dust, grown from the tumultuous birth of a double-star system, has formed a cosmic hourglass — and the James Webb Space Telescope imaged ...

The resulting cosmic clouds — named a "planetary nebula" only because through the first telescopes these distant and roundish objects looked like planets — can be brilliant spectacles ...