For centuries, the Ring Nebula has captivated astronomers with its stunning, glowing appearance, but a recent discovery has ...

A distinctive nebula inside the constellation Lyra holds a never-before-seen cloud of iron atoms—and researchers aren’t sure ...

A haunting dark nebula captured recently in the night sky over Texas has drawn attention for its uncanny resemblance to a ...

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.

NASA, Donald Walter/South Carolina State University/Paul Scowen/ Brian Moore/Arizona State University A glimpse up at the night sky will reveal a seemingly endless landscape of twinkling stars, but ...

The space between stars is dotted with twisting towers studded with stars, unblinking eyes, ethereal ribbons, and floating bubbles. These fantastical shapes, some of the universe’s most visually ...

A way of estimating more accurate distances to the thousands of so-called planetary nebulae dispersed across our galaxy has been announced. The announcement was made by a team of three astronomers ...

Emission nebulae are the subject of many of the most spectacular astrophotographs published in the last decade. Although there are many subcategories of nebulae, they all consist of interstellar gas ...

Hi folks, tune in every week of 2023 for the best in astronomy from Astronomy Editor Dave Eicher, brought to you by Celestron. Dave’s weekly video series will cover all the latest sky events, ...

Planetary nebulae represent a brief, yet illuminating, phase in the evolution of low- to intermediate-mass stars. These glowing shells of ionised gas are shed in the late stages of stellar development ...

Planetary nebulae are the remnants of stars roughly one-to-eight times the size of the sun surrounded by hot gas lit up by ultraviolet radiation. Kastner hopes that through a comprehensive campaign of ...