Hubble Telescope image of the Horsehead Nebula. (Credit: T.A.Rector (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) & Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA)) ...

We are working our way through some of the astronomical objects in the constellation Orion. Of all of them, my proudest moment as an amateur astronomer came on a frigid night in January over four ...

Hubble Telescope image of the Horsehead Nebula. Credit: T.A.Rector (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) & Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA ...

Two different views of the Horsehead Nebula. On the right is a view of the nebula in visible light, taken using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile (eso0202a).

It's located in the constellation Scorpius and is also known as NGC 6302. The Cat's Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543, is a visual "fossil record" of the dynamics and late evolution of a dying star.

We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky." One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a ...

The scene pictured here is on the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula, the largest and most productive star-forming region in the local universe. At its center, the Tarantula Nebula hosts the most ...

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Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the Orion Nebula in a new Hubble Space Telescope image. Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars ...

Hubble reveals the vibrant star-forming complexities of the Large Magellanic Cloud’s Tarantula Nebula, a spectacular display of cosmic dust and colorful stellar phenomena. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C ...

Tim Limmer has been gazing at the stars with a telescope since he was a child growing up in St. Louis. Now, he not only does he look at the stars here in Rolla — he photographs them, capturing the ...