Caption This image of the spectacular Sh2-54 nebula was taken in infrared light using ESO’s VISTA telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chile. The clouds of dust and gas that are normally obvious ...

reveals new details in infrared light. The supernova remnant is comprised of several different components, including doubly ionized sulfur (represented in red-orange), ionized iron (blue), dust ...

Day 21 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: inside a chaotic nebula. Sharpless 2-106 is a nebula several light-years across ... expanding nebula into an hourglass shape.

Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the Orion Nebula in a new Hubble Space ... Herschel, which viewed the heavens in infrared light, launched in May 2009 and ended its mission ...