Astronomers are rethinking what looks like the Milky Way’s quieter neighborhood, as new analysis of nearby gas clouds points to a more intense kind of star birth than the Gum Nebula’s faint glow ...

Day 4 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Star Birth in the Lobster Nebula. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged a region where the radiation and winds from a group of superhot ...

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a dramatic and stunning view of a nebula with a dying star, according to the space agency. The image was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, according to a ...

Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope study faint brown dwarfs in the RCW 36 nebula to understand substellar populations and the initial mass function in a young massive cluster.

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 ...

Webb’s latest image of the Helix Nebula reveals a dramatic close-up of a dying star shedding its outer layers. The detailed view highlights glowing knots of gas shaped by fast-moving stellar winds ...

The Ring Nebula is a well-known space icon shaped like a doughnut about 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. But astronomers think it's been holding a secret that only the penetrating ...

J.-C. Cuillandre & E. Bertin (CEA Paris-Saclay), Z. Tsvetanov This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features one of ...