The world's largest telescope captured a deep-space nebula — an interstellar cloud of gas and dust that can produce new stars — in stunning detail, providing the first close-up view to date of the ...

Nebula are giant clouds of interstellar gas that play a key role in the life-cycle of stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. It’s one of the most common words used by astronomers—and ...

Gone are the days when the Ring Nebula looked sort of like a bagel, or a jelly doughnut, a massive astronomical blob holding the secrets of a dying star. The new images of the famous Ring Nebula from ...

The interaction of two doomed stars has created this spectacular ring adorned with bright clumps of gas ­– a diamond necklace of cosmic proportions. Fittingly known as the “Necklace Nebula,” this ...

A nebula is a luminescent giant cloud of dust and gas in space that could be from a supernova or could be a star-forming region. The "dumbbell nebula," also known as Messier 27, is what astronomers ...

The Butterfly Nebula exhibits the classic hourglass shape of many planetary nebulas… The Hubble Space Telescope has caught the most detailed view of the Crab Nebula in one of the largest images ever ...

The Soul Nebula (IC 1848) is a large star-forming region in the Cassiopeia constellation. It's about 7,500 light-years away and spans 300 light-years across. Several small star clusters are located ...

The decades-long mystery of a never-ending explosion of X-rays around the remains of a dead star may have finally been solved. The radiation probably originates from the scorching-hot wreckage left ...

The Carina nebula is a turbulent cloud of gas, dust about 7,600 light-years from here, a birthplace and graveyard for some of the Milky Way’s hottest and most massive stars. The nebula is home to some ...