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 ...

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 ...

The universe is a slow-changing place. While it's mostly true that the heavens and the deep-sky objects in it will look ...

When the ESA launched the Gaia spacecraft in 2013, it didn't generate the same fanfare as the launch of other missions like the JWST, or first light from telescopes like the Vera Rubin Observatory.

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

This image of the Horsehead Nebula from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope focuses on a portion of the horse's "mane" that is about 0.8 light-years in width. It was taken with Webb's NIRCam ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Tarantula Nebula, a large star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, is approximately 1,000 light-years in diameter and located 160,000 light-years from Earth. Astronomical surveys, such ...

Researchers studied RCW 120 to analyze the effects of stellar feedback, and found that RCW 120 must be less than 150,000 years old, which is very young for such a nebula. In the southern sky, situated ...

Astronomers have solved the 16-year-old mystery surrounding the Blue Ring Nebula - an unusual, large, faint blob of gas with a star at its center. This object is unlike any they'd ever seen before in ...