January is the best time of the year to see the Great Orion Nebula as it climbs high overhead in the winter sky. Look to the ...
Learn how mapping the Ring Nebula’s light revealed a massive iron bar hidden for decades.
Dark nebulas are notoriously challenging to capture because they emit little to no light of their own. Meyer imaged LDN 1245 ...
A distinctive nebula inside the constellation Lyra holds a never-before-seen cloud of iron atoms—and researchers aren’t sure ...
A colossal bar of iron hidden inside the Ring Nebula may be the ghostly remains of a planet destroyed by a dying star.
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Astronomers spot a perfectly straight 'iron bar' inside the Ring Nebula — and no one knows why
Astronomers have found a strange “iron bar” inside the Ring Nebula, a cloud of gas about 2,283 light-years away. The long, ...
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A giraffe face… in space? This new deep-space image is breaking social media
A haunting dark nebula captured recently in the night sky over Texas has drawn attention for its uncanny resemblance to a ...
Oregon stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up throughout August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and even a visible nebula. A formation known as the "dumbbell nebula" ...
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