A new X-ray photo taken by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) showing a cloud of ejected material from a former supernova shows an eerie shape reminiscent of a hand reaching into ...

Composite image of the Galactic plane region and Potoroo, with the red layer showing the ASKAP total intensity image at 1368 MHz, and the green and blue layers representing WISE infrared images at 12 ...

This image shows the Vela pulsar wind nebula. Light blue represents X-ray polarization data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer. Pink and purple colors correspond to data from NASA’s ...

An ominous-looking nebula named NGC 246 lurks in the constellation Cetus about 1,600 light-years away from Earth. It is ...

The universe is a strange place. The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) orbiting observatory recently highlighted ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — NASA has released images of a pulsar wind nebula, referred to as MSH 15-52, which closely resembles a ghostly cosmic hand. Using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, NASA ...

The pulsar nebula has been named "Potoroo", after a small Australian marsupial. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast cloud of high-energy particles called a wind nebula around a rare ultra-magnetic neutron star, or magnetar, for the first time. The find offers a unique window into ...

Is it Halloween in outer space? NASA has released X-ray images of a dead collapsed star that looks eerily like the bones of a "ghostly cosmic hand." The spooky images, released just before Halloween ...

These pictures are out of this ghoul-axy. Just in time for Halloween, NASA revealed that the “bones of a ghostly cosmic hand” that died 1,500 years ago are reaching out just above our heads.

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers from the Nanjing University in China and elsewhere, have detected a radio pulsar in a supernova remnant known as CTB ...

A new composite image of the Crab Nebula features X-rays from Chandra (blue and white), optical data from Hubble (purple), and infrared data from Spitzer (pink). Chandra has repeatedly observed the ...