Emission nebulae are glowing, spread-out clouds of ionized gas that shine with their own light. In this image of NGC 2313, the bright star V565 at the center lights up a silvery curtain of gas and ...

The Flame Nebula is located approximately 1,400 light-years away in the constellation of Orion. Otherwise known as NGC 2024 and Sh2-277, this emission nebula is approximately 12 light-years wide and ...

Take for example the Orion Nebula. Forming the middle "star ... from the 1920s showed that it had features of an emission nebula, giving off its own glow separate from that of the stars in ...

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 ...

A new Webb image shows a new view of the gorgeous Flame Nebula, an emission nebula located in the constellation of Orion. This nebula is a busy stellar nursery, with many new stars being formed there.

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

It resembles a miniature Big Dipper. It’s over 400 light-years away. M42, The Orion Nebula. It’s a giant emission nebula of excited hydrogen gas lit up like a fluorescent light by new stars ...

What’s ironic to me is that the colorful emission is an obstacle because it makes it more difficult to detect ... Luhman: More than 20 years ago, I published images from the Hubble Space Telescope of ...