Miguel Claro captured the Orion Constellation glowing red due to hydrogen gas, as seen from the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve in ...

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!

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.

These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...