In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Hubble once again lifts the veil on a famous—and frequently ...

Currently, the two contending theories are 1) a fast stellar wind producing cometary tails from clumps of dust, or 2) a reverse shock wave propagating from the outer edge of the nebula back toward ...

Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, Portugal, who creates spectacular images of the night sky. As a European Southern Observatory Photo ...

Co-author Martin Guerrero from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia told Phys.org that debris from the shattered planet ...

the Orion Nebula is M42; and M51 is the Whirlpool Galaxy. In such illustrious company, M50 might feel a bit intimidated. Well, it shouldn’t. At magnitude 5.9, sharp-eyed observers under a dark ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has identified free-floating brown dwarfs in the Flame Nebula, some as small as two to ...