7 beautiful Hubble images of nebulae shared by NASA
This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years away. These opaque, dark knots of gas and dust called "Bok globules" are ...
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Get lost in the clouds of the Orion Nebula with new NASA video
A video released by NASA this week shows the well-known Orion Nebula in a new way. The 3D visualization of the nebula allows the viewer to get a bird's eye view of the baby stars, gas, and ...
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These mysterious objects born in violent clashes between young star systems aren't stars or planets
Are they stars? Are they planets? Or are they neither? Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could ...
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The Orion Nebula: A Star Nursery by Andrew Fraknoi
That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide), we see a ...
When Disks Collide: The Violent Birth of Rogue Planets
How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...
Hubble captures new view of the Veil Nebula
In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Hubble once again lifts the veil on a famous—and frequently ...
Do you need glasses for a lunar eclipse? What to know about viewing the blood moon
If you plan to stay up to watch the total lunar eclipse on Thursday, you won't need to do much to prepare like for a solar ...