For centuries, the Ring Nebula has captivated astronomers with its stunning, glowing appearance, but a recent discovery has ...

The Milky Way's plane cuts through the northwestern corner of Ara the Altar, blessing this southern constellation with a ...

A distinctive nebula inside the constellation Lyra holds a never-before-seen cloud of iron atoms—and researchers aren’t sure ...

Stunning cosmic clouds and stars are captured in this image of Melotte 15 showing the newborn star cluster in the core of the so-called Heart nebula. Astrophotographer Jaspal Chadha of London took ...

January is the best time of the year to see the Great Orion Nebula as it climbs high overhead in the winter sky. Look to the ...

Dark nebulas are notoriously challenging to capture because they emit little to no light of their own. Meyer imaged LDN 1245 ...

Like cool pictures of the cosmos? You came to the right place. It's called the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, and even though it’s located in Chile, it's funded and operated by the U.S. government. In a ...

This new James Webb Space Telescope image features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537–the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), JWST has revealed never-before-seen details in ...

The Ring Nebula is perhaps one of the most photographed objects in the night sky, dating back to its first image in 1886. Its intrinsic structure has been debated for as long as it has been observed.

Astronomers using the Tibet AS-gamma Experiment have discovered the highest-energy light ever measured from an astrophysical source. Photons streaming from the Crab Nebula were recently measured at ...

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