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 ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...

PAH emission is typically very bright and PAH ... WST's NIR and MIR imaging view of the Orion Nebula, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2024). DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346747 Els Peeters et al, PDRs4All ...

Orion Nebula: It is a cloud of dust and gas ... globules' can be seen absorbing light in the center of the NGC 281 emission nebula, a region where new stars are forming. NGC 6530: A section ...

Little Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Messier 76, M76, or NGC 650/651) located 3,400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus. It is classified as a planetary nebula, an ...

That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide), we see a ...

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released a new trove of images capturing the Orion nebula this week—the latest stunning images of the far reaches of space that the advanced ...