From the mysterious 'Pillars of Creation' to the iconic Horsehead nebula, check out these 7 breathtaking images of Nebulae ...

Orange waves of hot gas, resembling the curved legs of a black widow spider, surround a pinkish glowing core in this image of ...

The Owl Nebula is a planetary nebula located about 2,030 light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It is estimated to be around 8,000 years old. The Horsehead Nebula, located in the ...

In an image snapped by the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8, Mexico's most active volcano Popocatépetl can be seen ...

Planetary Nebulae (PNe) are emission-line nebulae in a short-lived late stage of stellar evolution for low- to ...

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...

A new study by an international team of researchers, including a Penn State astronomer, used NASA's James Webb Space ...

The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars shaping the nebula to the pillars of dense gas that may be the homes of budding stars. The Trapezium resides in the ...

The Hubble telescope itself started observing it soon after launching into orbit in 1990. A decade later, the Chandra X-ray observatory began monitoring changes in X-ray emission from the nebula ...

Hubble and its fellow observatories give us ... and "the dirty" (dust-obscured processes such as star and planet formation). Chandra captures the rays that emit from the universe's most violent ...

In 2019, Hubble released an image of M90 created with Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2 ... seen here in red H-alpha light from nebulae. M90 sits among the galaxies of the relatively ...

This image of Caldwell 69 includes ultraviolet, visible, and infrared observations taken in 2019 and 2020 by Hubble’s Wide ... which is one of the nearest planetary nebulae to Earth.