The Tarantula Nebula is a star formation region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Tarantula is about 160,000 light-years away and is highly luminous for a non-stellar object. It's the brightest ...

Boom. There it was, plain as day: the Veil Nebula, its faintly glowing gray-green arcs of nebulosity running through a rich, speckled, multicolored star field, appearing like luminous fragments of ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning images of these cosmic explosions, and we’re counting down the top 10 ...

We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky." One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a ...

Astronomers apply nebula not only to whole galaxies of stars far beyond the Milky Way. but also to patches of dark or faintly luminous matter within the Milky Way, which is the home galaxy of ...

Little Dumbbell Nebula M76: Celebrating Hubble’s 34th ... mirrors the structure of our Milky Way with its luminous central bar and spiral arms. ESO 300-16: This ghostly galaxy, 28.7 million ...

The team, from France’s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), studied the Orion Nebula using the James ... massive and 100,000 times more luminous than our Sun.

In a stunning revelation, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has peered into the cosmic cradle of star formation, capturing an extraordinary view of young ...

This striking Hubble Space Telescope image shows the densely packed globular cluster known as NGC 2210, which is situated in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The glittering globular cluster Terzan 12 ...