Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! In addition to helping the researchers nail down the nebula's ellipsoidal structure, the 3D model also ...

Many know the Great Orion Nebula (M42) in Orion’s Sword as a bright diffuse nebula — a glowing cloud of cosmic gas illuminated by the Trapezium star cluster. But the Orion Nebula also has a ...

The CO emission reveals cold, molecular gas that envelopes the hot gas and dust seen in images of the nebula obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and, more recently, the James Webb Space ...

Now, we understand the structure of this nebula. "The James Webb Space Telescope gives us a collapsed image of what the object looks like in the sky. The SMA allows us to accurately measure the ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty ... The scene pictured here is on the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula, the largest and most productive star-forming region in the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of the Orion Nebula, highlighting two young protostars, HOPS 150 and HOPS 153. These protostars are actively shaping their surroundings ...

The telescope’s size let it make images of very faint objects, and its high-quality mirror allowed it to distinguish individual stars in some of the nebulae. Estimating distances in astronomy is ...

Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they were independent galaxies, extremely large and distant. At the time, the ...