This celestial wonder sits unassumingly near the head of the northern constellation Cepheus the King within 20° of the North ...
A disparate collection of young stellar objects bejewels a cosmic panorama in the star-forming region NGC 1333 in this new ...
A new image of a proplyd with a comet-like appearance has deepened the mystery of these radiation-proof planetary nurseries. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured variable stars and circumstellar disks in NGC 1333, showing protostars, Orion variable stars, and reflection nebulae in the Perseus Molecular Cloud.
A group of extremely bright stars may be slowly reshaping the Orion Nebula and stopping one of their neighbors from forming planets, new James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest. When you ...
JWST/MIRI images showing the extended nebular emission around NGC 6720's central star in 3 filters. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.01188 Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an ...
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 ...
Ultraviolet “winds” from nearby massive stars are stripping the gas from a young star’s protoplanetary disk, causing it to rapidly lose mass, according to a new study. It reports the first directly ...
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Hubble Telescope image of the Horsehead Nebula. Credit: T.A.Rector (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) & Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA ...