Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A newly processed Hubble image of the Eagle Nebula reveals a 9.5 light-year-tall pillar of cold gas and dust, shaped by radiation and winds from young stars ...

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 ...

(Beverly Lynds was an astronomer who catalogued both bright nebulas – BN – and dark nebulas – DN – in the 1960s) How does the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a breathtaking image of Lynds Bright Nebula 483 (LBN 483), a butterfly-shaped nebula located 650 light-years away. But this stunning cosmic ...

A colossal pillar of gas and dust towering 9.5 light-years tall, this spectacular structure in the Eagle Nebula highlights the breathtaking beauty sculpted by the forces of star formation.

In context: Astronomers have been observing the wheel-shaped nebula NGC 1514 for over three centuries. In 1790, William Herschel described it as the first deep-sky object that looked cloudy.

3. The Helix Nebula is a planetary nebula, formed from the outer layers of a dying star similar to our Sun, located about 650 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. 4. The images reveal ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed a planetary nebula designated Messier 57 (also known as NGC 6720), dubbed the Ring Nebula.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured an unprecedentedly sharp image of planetary nebula NGC 1514, revealing intricate details of its dying star. Located 1,500 light-years away, the nebula ...