A nebula is a giant cloud of gas and dust located in the space between stars. Nebula is Latin for "mist, vapor, fog, smoke, exhalation," but in an astronomical context, ...

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

From a Mars rover selfie to an astronaut's view of the flower moon, these space images will give you a new perspective on our ...

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

This spectacular star-forming region is one of the first images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

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 ...

What you’re seeing is the Tarantula Nebula, an unimaginably huge star-forming gas cloud.It’s located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way, about 170,000 light ...

ESO/A. McLeod . This majestic pillar of the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) is a 3-light-year-tall cloud of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from stars both in its ...

NASA released photos this week that show the Horsehead Nebula, ... The Horsehead, also known as Barnard 33, is a cold, dark cloud of gas and dust silhouetted against a bright nebula, ...

Researchers already knew that UV light within the nebula evaporated the dust cloud itself, sweeping out dust particles and heated gas, ...

It is surrounded by dark dust clouds, including LDN 1450 near the center of the image and B205 at upper right. This is an example of dark nebulae silhouetted by a starry field. Credit: Rodney Pommier ...

The Webb telescope peered into a star-forming nebula, or a cloud of gas and dust, named NGC 1333 located 960 light-years away within a larger gas and dust cloud called the Perseus molecular cloud.