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Since its launch in April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has been an invaluable tool for astronomers in unraveling the ...

Officially known as W40, this red butterfly in space is a nebula, or a giant cloud of gas and dust. The “wings” of the butterfly are giant bubbles of gas being blown from the inside out by massive ...

John Martin Schaeberle discovered IC 405 near the end of the 19th century. The object was independently spotted shortly after by astrophotographers Max Wolf and Eugen von Gothard. It’s located in ...

An international team of astronomers have discovered two stars in a binary pair that complete an orbit around each other in a little over three hours, residing in the planetary nebula M3-1. Remarkably ...

Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope caught this stunning image of the Tarantula nebula, the largest and brightest stellar factory in the Large Magellanic Cloud — a dwarf galaxy orbiting our own. The ...

“Everything has its finale, nothing lasts forever.” These lyrics, from iconic salsero Héctor Lavoe, come to mind when presented with NOIRLab’s dazzling image of the Toby Jug Nebula. About 1,200 ...

Planetary nebulae represent a brief, yet illuminating, phase in the evolution of low- to intermediate-mass stars. These glowing shells of ionised gas are shed in the late stages of stellar development ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning images of a "cosmic tarantula": the Tarantula Nebula. The nebula, officially called 30 Doradus, earned its spider nickname because "the region ...

We've seen some stunning photos from the Artemis II crew – but you may have noticed some missing features.

A bright nebula of swirling gas around a well-known supergiant star takes on a rainbow of colors in a striking new image that shows the object in unprecedented detail using infrared light. Astronomers ...

A team of researchers from Potsdam University and Kazan Federal University has found evidence of a previously unknown kind of star in nebula IRAS 00500+6713. In their paper published in the journal ...