Some of the sharpest images ever made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have, for the first time, revealed what appears to be an ageing star giving birth to a butterfly-like planetary nebula. These ...

This week I want to take you to the maternity ward of stellar birth. Since stars, including our sun, are basically huge balls ...

One of the largest panoramic images ever taken with Hubble’s cameras has been released to celebrate the 17th anniversary of the launch and deployment of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The image ...

In a stunning new image that marks the 36th anniversary of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have captured a breathtaking new view of the Trifid Nebula, a stellar nursery where new stars are ...

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If you look at a photo of a face-on spiral galaxy, you'll notice spiral arms filled with glowing gas clouds, sparkling star clusters, and opaque dust lanes curving gently away from the galaxy's core.

Day 4 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Star Birth in the Lobster Nebula. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged a region where the radiation and winds from a group of superhot ...

This dramatic scene captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope looks like a fantastical tableau from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. But truth is even stranger than fiction. In reality, ...

Learn how Webb’s infrared view of Orion revealed buried protostars, violent jets, and disks of gas and dust that could eventually form planets. The Orion Nebula is one of the most familiar ...

An international research team led by scientists from the Technion Faculty of Physics presents a first-of-its-kind measurement of cosmic rays located at the core of the galactic nebula Barnard 68. The ...