What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

Discover how a giant interstellar cloud known as the solar nebula gave birth to our solar system and everything in it. The solar system as we know it began life as a vast, swirling cloud of gas and ...

The SMA data also reveal telltale signatures of the influence of a companion star to the former red giant at the center of the nebula, in the form of high-velocity blobs of gas that appear to have ...

We can use the Ring Nebula as our laboratory to study how planetary nebulae form and evolve." The Ring Nebula's mesmerizing features are a testament to the stellar life cycle. Approximately 2,600 ...