The Helix Nebula, located 650 light-years from Earth, has baffled scientists for decades. The planetary nebula was created by a dying star that shed its outer layers of gas, leaving behind a small ...

A complete look at the heart of the Orion Nebula as captured by James Webb. Image source: NASA, ESA, CSA, Data reduction and analysis : PDRs4All ERS Team; graphical processing S. Fuenmayor & O. Berné ...

The Crab Nebula, also known as Messier 1, is one of the most well-known celestial objects, as this breathtaking supernova remnant has been imaged hundreds of times by NASA and all the way down to ...

Heart Nebula. (Image credit: Byronmhome (CC BY-SA 4.0)) Stars ornament the night sky like jewels — but they also sculpt the sky. The object IC 1805, nicknamed the Heart Nebula, is a spectacular ...

Distant planetary nebula NGC 2899 is also shown in a colorful moth-shaped orb, which is a result of an outflow of radiation and stellar winds from a dying, white dwarf star at the nebula’s heart ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has gazed at the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. Since the recording of this energetic event in 1054 ...

Meyer captured the ancient light cast out by the Lagoon and Trifid Nebula over 34 hours in May 2025, while observing under the near-pristine dark skies of Arizona, a little north of Ash Fork.

NASA' s James Webb Space ... The star is actually one of two at the heart of NGC 1514, a nebula in the Taurus constellation about 1,500 light-years from Earth, NASA said in a news release.

A NASA X-ray instrument has provided a new view of one of astronomy’s most beautiful objects, the Crab Nebula. The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer or IXPE observatory was launched in December ...

According to NASA, the Seagull Nebula, also known by its catalog designations Sh2-296 and IC 2177, is situated near the direction of Sirius, the alpha star of Canis Major, the constellation of the ...