A new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope offers a fresh look at the Veil Nebula, a vast supernova remnant that has ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows one of the most famous and beautiful objects in the night sky.

The Iris is a reflection nebula, a cloud of gas and dust illuminated by a central star. It's six light-years across, and lies 1400 years away from the earth. The Eagle Nebula is a young open cluster ...

It turns out that one of the most prominent space artists predicted how a strange celestial object would look — 50 years in ...

NASA and the European Space Agency have shared an image of the supernova remnant that's approximately 20 times as massive as ...

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NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released 25 new images. Since Chandra’s launch on July 23, 1999 it discovers exotic new phenomena and examines old mysteries of our universe.

The agency is encouraging astronomy clubs to throw “star parties” to introduce people to the nebulae and galaxies spotted by ...

The first thing was to picture the supernova remnant surrounding the pulsar ... a reverse shock wave propagating from the outer edge of the nebula back toward the central star, sublimating ...

Learn how different types of stars form, live, explode, and then form again.