The nebula is known as Hen 2-104, located several thousand light years from the earth. It appears to have two nested hourglass-shaped structures that were sculpted by a whirling pair of stars in a ...

The Horsehead Nebula is a part of much larger complex in the constellation Orion. Known collectively as the Orion Molecular Cloud, it also houses other famous objects, such as the Great Orion Nebula.

This towering structure in the Eagle Nebula is a 9.5 light-year-high column of gas and dust from a stellar nursery. This image shows N90, where bright young stars carve a cavity, with distant ...

Space agencies like NASA keep sharing mesmerising images from space for us to understand the Universe better. The Carina Nebula is home to a million of stars. The image has been formed with the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recorded breath-taking new images of the iconic Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57. The images, released today by an international team of astronomers ...

Recent images of the Horsehead Nebula are the sharpest infrared images ... Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free ...

creating massive shockwaves that extend over 62 billion miles (100 billion kilometres) into space. These shockwaves form the nebula's distinctive spider-leg-like arcs.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. This composite image shows the star-forming region 30 Doradus, also ...

The team determined the nebula to have an ellipsoidal shape using Submillimeter Array (SMA) radio-wavelength mapping of emission from carbon monoxide (CO) gas. The CO emission reveals cold, molecular ...

An international team of scientists has produced the clearest three-dimensional view yet of the Ring Nebula—one of the ... the hot gas and dust seen in images captured by the Hubble Space ...

a network of radio dishes atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii — to gather high-resolution images of the Ring Nebula. Specifically, they mapped movements of carbon monoxide gas molecules that outline the ...