The James Webb telescope spent another year collecting instantly iconic space imagery. Here are some of our favorites.

The Guitar Nebula, powered by pulsar PSR B2224+65, produces glowing particles and X-rays. This reveals how particles travel ...

An astrophysicist has cracked the mystery behind strange "zebra" stripes in radio signals from the Crab Nebula. This ...

New images of the massive structure is helping astronomers identify the tune being played by the celestial guitar.

A study reveals the cause behind the Crab Nebula’s zebra radiation pattern: plasma diffraction in the pulsar's magnetosphere.

The nebula, a cloud of material ejected from the ... It’s similar to the Doppler effect observed when emergency vehicles turn on their sirens; the horn of an approaching vehicle will emit ...

ABSTRACT Published images of the Crab Nebula have been scanned and measured to derive proper ... Magazine photos typically display a “picture‐matting” effect when scanned. This creates a noisy looking ...