But the Orion Nebula also has a dark side, formed by its lanes and clouds of dust. They frequently avoid scrutiny, as the surrounding brightness tends to steal the show. But you can easily train ...

The Cat's Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543, is a visual "fossil record" of the dynamics and late evolution of a dying star. The Horsehead Nebula is a dark cloud of dust and gas in the constellation ...

This image represents ten total hours of observation and was captured from the Dark Sky Alqueva observatory in Portugal. Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science ...

The team's findings indicate that roughly 6,000 years have elapsed since the dying star, then a red giant, ejected the molecular gas that envelopes the nebula. The SMA data also reveal high ...

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 ...

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but also to patches of dark or faintly luminous matter within ... If the reflection theory is correct, red nebulae should also exist, with comparatively cool red stars as illuminators.