DANVILLE, CA — Patch's resident astrophotographer Bob Schiff captured this photo of the North America Nebula, an emission nebula about 1,800 light years from Earth whose shape resembles the ...

To see the Crab Nebula for yourself, you'll have to wait until around midnight local daylight time, after it has sufficiently ...

The European Southern Observatory captured a Halloween-themed image of the Dark Wolf Nebula, a hauntingly dense cloud of ...

Hubble has captured a mesmerizing photo of a cosmic nursery found in Orion. The reflection nebula, which is known as NGC 1999, looks eerily similar to a keyhole. The nebula itself, the European ...

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At over 1,300 light-years from Earth, the Orion Nebula is a stellar nursery where new stars are born, making it one of the ...

The supernova that caused the nebula was recorded by Japanese and Chinese astronomers in the 12th century. Now, we know exactly what the aftermath looks like.

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 ...

There is still much that astronomers don’t know about how stars are born, but the answers lie in nebulae, vast tracts of gas and dust that can span distances many times larger than our solar system.

The Ring Nebula: Messier 57, more commonly known as the Ring Nebula, is about 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, and is best observed during August. It was discovered by French ...

Earth, it looks like a black hole in space in the shape of a wolf. But it's actually a cloud of space dust in which stars are being created.

The VLT Survey Telescope captured a spooktacular image of a nebula that looks like a dark wolf in the sky just in time for ...