As NASA described it, the stellar jet located on the outskirts of the Milky Way resembles Darth Maul’s double-bladed lightsaber from “Star Wars.” ...

Running Chicken Nebula is a stellar nursery located in the constellation Centaurus. See a 3D animation created from VLT ...

Astronomers have observed IC 418 for 130 years and discovered that the temperature of its central star is rising at an ...

At first glance, the Butterfly Nebula looks like a glowing insect pinned against the backdrop of space. Officially known as ...

Massive stars in the Lobster Nebula carve dramatic shapes into cosmic dust while thousands of glittering young stars emerge ...

A blowtorch of seething gases erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA's James Webb Space ...

NASA’s powerful telescope imaged a seething jet of gases. The eruption flows from a massive protostar in space. It speeds at ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Webb Space Telescope is one of the busiest observatories in all of science. Since launching ...

A few days ago, while browsing an astronomy forum late at night, I stumbled upon an image that nearly startled me awake — have you ever seen a square nebula? Not the kind that is roughly square with ...

Planetary nebulae represent a brief, yet illuminating, phase in the evolution of low- to intermediate-mass stars. These glowing shells of ionised gas are shed in the late stages of stellar development ...

With the New Year here and the season of winter under way, we explore the January 2022 skies for a most memorable group of stars know as Orion the Hunter. Rising in the eastern sky right after sunset, ...

This spectacular celestial shot displays the colorful emissions of a newborn star. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Swirling like ...