The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

Death and new life meet in a photo showing off a nebula located 7,500 light-years away. The Carina Nebula — recently photographed by the VISTA telescope in the Southern Hemisphere — is a 300 ...

Hubble’s Blue Bubble: The distinctive blue bubble appearing to encircle WR 31a is a Wolf–Rayet nebula — an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other gases. Carina Nebula’s ...

Among the first Webb images released by NASA was this striking vision of the Carina Nebula. The images show a star-forming ...

After NASA repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999, the Heritage Project used the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 to capture an image of NGC 1999 in the Orion constellation. Hubble's image of NGC ...

The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this Hubble Space Telescope image, which has also captured a smaller companion star in the upper left of this image.

Called Eta Carinae, the double-star system is shrouded by a dumbbell-shaped nebula of gas and dust that erupted nearly two centuries ago. However, astronomers now report in the journal Astronomy ...

This Hubble's image of gas and dust in the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula extends a better understanding of how dust contributes to the formation of new stars and planets. The image depicts a ...