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 ...

R Aquarii, a symbiotic binary star located 700 light-years away in Aquarius, undergoes violent eruptions, making it a key ...

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

Using the Large High-Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), an international team of astronomers have detected ...

The Rosette Nebula is a vast emission nebula located about 5,200 light years away. The star forming region lies near a large molecular cloud in the constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. NGC 346 is a ...

A new study has discovered the origin of the persistent emission of radiation observed in some deep-space fast radio bursts.

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Now that autumn is officially upon the Northern Hemisphere, the familiar wintertime constellations are rising earlier each ...

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

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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 ...