A camera designed to decode the secrets of dark energy has captured a stunning new image that reveals the insides of a distant star-forming region. The Dark Energy Camera, an instrument mounted on ...

Using the Dark Energy Camera astronomers have found a packed stellar nursery of infant stars in the dark nebula in the 180-light-year-wide Circinus West molecular cloud.

With binoculars or a wide-field scope, emission nebula IC 1396 is a vast playground, filled with many other interesting objects. Skip to content Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com Forum!

A new image taken by the powerful Dark Energy Camera (DECam) has revealed a breathtaking view of one of the closest star-forming regions to Earth—the Chamaeleon I dark cloud. Located about 500 ...

The nebula is huge, at 130 light-years across, but you can see there is a hollow area at its center where there is a lack of red or yellow, indicating the presence of gas.

The Dark Wolf Nebula, 5,300 light-years from us, resembles a dark void into which stars vanish; but this structure is the site not of star death, but star birth.

The Dark Energy Camera imaged the Rosette Nebula, capturing a kaleidoscope of color created by the star cluster born within it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

It shows what's known as the Dark Wolf Nebula. 5,300 light-years from Earth, it looks like a black hole in space in the shape of a wolf. But it's actually a cloud of space dust in which stars are ...