The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured ...

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has unveiled its first close-up image of the cosmos, offering an extraordinary new perspective ...

Just 500 light years away, the Chamaeleon Complex, and in particular its dark cloud Chamaeleon I, is a hotbed of young, ...

SO much of the universe is beyond the naked eye. Reflection nebulae could have been yet another cosmic mystery, if it wasn’t for the neighbouring young stars that sets them apart. What is a r… ...

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

The Iris Nebula (NGC 7023) is an odd reflection nebula surrounding a magnitude 7.4 star, SAO 19158, in the constellation Cepheus. Skip to content Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com Forum!

Reflection nebula. Clouds of dust and gas that are lit-up by nearby stars are called reflection nebula. That scattering of light is sometimes called “nebulosity” and it’s most famously seen ...

These nebulae—LDN 227 and IC 1275—lurk east of the Lagoon Nebula (Image Credit: Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT), Hawaiian Starlight, CFHT). Of course, the vast majority of prominent reflection ...

Faint tufts of the reflection nebula extend farther to the north, toward and beyond 7th-magnitude HD 164514. Make sure to explore Astronomy’s full list of 101 cosmic objects you must see.

SO much of the universe is beyond the naked eye. Reflection nebulae could have been yet another cosmic mystery, if it wasn’t for the neighbouring young stars that sets them apart. What is a r… ...