Nebulae are vast clouds of gas and dust, sometimes reaching sizes of light years, marking the creation sites of new stars and marking the deathbeds of old stars.

SPHEREx's new images — containing roughly 100,000 points of light stars, galaxies and nebulae — have confirmed that the ...

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...

The Necklace Nebula, formed by two doomed stars, glows with bright gas clumps like a cosmic diamond ring. Located 15,000 light-years away in the Sagitta constellation, it shines as a stunning ...

An international team of astronomers led by Stefan Kimeswenger from the Department of Astro and Particle Physics, together ...

Once I'd had my fill of shooting the moon I moved onto the deep-space mode. You get a list of galaxies, nebulae and distant planets, together with info about which ones are visible based on your ...

The open star cluster NGC 460 is located within a greater collection of nebulae and star clusters known as N83, within one of the Milky Way’s nearest neighbors: the Small Magellanic Cloud. . | Credit: ...

He chose to investigate the nebulae, which were believed to be clouds of glowing gas. But with this new, larger telescope, Hubble was able to resolve images of the nebulae that showed individual ...