Astronomers have captured a haunting image of a “cosmic bat” spreading its wings across deep space. This nebula, 10,000 light-years away, glows crimson as newborn stars ignite clouds of gas and dust.

The most prominent clouds here are RCW 94, which represents the right wing of the bat, and RCW 95, which forms the body, while the other parts of the bat have no official designation. Credit: ...

Astronomers have spotted a ghostly visitor soaring through the Milky Way - a winged cloud of gas and dust that looks like a ...

The European Southern Observatory captured a nebula bat during a survey of the Milky Way's galactic plane. Astronomers have ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was originally expected to last about 15 years in orbit, before its optical surfaces became too ...

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

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed NGC 6537, the Red Spider Nebula in unprecedented detail, ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS captivated astronomers with its dramatic passage near the Sun, brightening significantly due to ...

Never-before-seen details of the Red Spider Nebula – NGC 6537 – have been revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

This new image from JWST also reveals for the first time the full extent of the nebula's lobes, or the spider's "legs", seen ...

What you're looking at here is the aftermath of a sun-like star that eventually reached the end of its life and poofed out ...