The Veil Nebula is a colorful, almost psychedelic span of plasma dispersed into space after a star roughly 20 times the size of our own sun exploded about 10,000 years ago. Only a small portion of ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a breathtaking image of Lynds Bright Nebula 483 (LBN 483), a ...
Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula. A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful ...
In this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, "cometary knots" on the Helix Nebula show blue-green heads caused by excitation of their molecular material from shocks or ultraviolet radiation.
Carina Nebula’s ‘Mystic Mountain’: This three-light-year-tall cosmic pinnacle, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope‘s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2010, is made up primarily of dust and gas ...