The Rosette Nebula blossoms in deep space, captured in this wonderful image taken by the high-resolution Dark Energy Camera, illustrating how hot, bright stars at the heart of the Rosette are ...

In the Crab Nebula, a rapidly rotating neutron star, or pulsar (white dot near the center), powers the dramatic activity seen by Chandra. The inner X-ray ring is thought to be a shock wave that marks ...

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a star-studded nebula scene that conjures the image of a colossal baboon raging in ...

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 ...

In the Auriga constellation, some 1,500 light-years from Earth, we come across a star so powerful and energetic, it has earned the nickname the “flaming star.” AE Aurigae, its real name, is an O-type ...

Astronomers studying dying stars’ colorful cast-offs have discovered a mysterious pattern: Some planetary nebulae in the Milky Way galaxy’s central bulge are strangely aligned, according to a study to ...

In sharp contrast to the "Pillars of Creation" present in the star-forming regions of the Eagle nebula captured by the Hubble Space Telescope two decades ago, new observations are showing pillar-like ...

Ever wonder what a nursery for stars looks like? If this image is any indication, it's a beautiful but chaotic place. Taken with the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, ...

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 ...

A star cluster once thought to be part of the spectacular Orion Nebula is actually a separate celestial entity parked in front of the nebula, a new study reveals. Scientists using the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has capturedan image of the super-dense neutron star at the heart of the famous Crab Nebula.The nebula resulted from one of the earliest supernovae to berecorded by human ...

The picture uses images from the VLT Survey Telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile, and the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at La Silla, also in Chile. This is the most detailed picture ever taken of ...