The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. This Hubble ...

The Rosette Nebula in Monoceros is captured in all its glory, revealing the sites of star formation and the feedback effects ...

Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), an international team of astronomers have detected very-high-energy (VHE) ...

This stunning image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a region called G35.2-0.7N, renowned as a hotbed for high-mass star formation. The Crab Nebula is the expanding remnant of a star's ...

Sharpen your eye and build your knowledge of clusters, nebulae, galaxies, and more with this list of popular objects for ...

The Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year award was won by Daniel Borsari for his image "NGC NGC 1499, A Dusty California" ...

The soft light from a nebula may also come from the ambient radiation released by the nebular cloud itself. This type of ...

The radiation energizes the gas, causing different gases to glow, or emit, at characteristic wavelengths, hence why such a nebula is called an "emission nebula." The filters used in this image ...

The terminator sweeps across the Moon, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS continues to wow, and Jupiter reaches a stationary point in ...

The study of X-ray emission from astronomical objects reveals secrets about the universe at the largest and smallest spatial ...

Nebulae are all but impossible to spot in the night sky, but you'd never know it. Through a telescope, they make the most jaw-dropping beauty shots. But what is a nebula in the first place?