Holiday decorations may have come down already on Earth, but a nebula located 7,000 light-years away is keeping the festive spirit alive. The Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning image of a ...

The above image is not a real photograph of a so-called "Serenity Nebula." No such nebula has been documented, and the image is in fact a digital rendering of a nebula. Social media posts ...

Swirling like some cosmic watercolor painting, behold this breathtaking new image of the Orion Nebula recently captured by a venerable space telescope. This dreamy Hubble Space Telescope photo is ...

A new analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images has offered some tantalizing clues. The Butterfly Nebula is so-named because the clouds of dust and gas have formed a pair of roughly symmetrical ...

There are few more iconic images from the Hubble Space Telescope than this one. A colossal pillar of gas and dust towering 9.5 light-years tall, this spectacular structure in the Eagle Nebula ...

The most famous telescope in history has reached ... Gauzy clouds make Mars look like a frosty marble. Planetary nebula NGC 2899, a space butterfly A white dwarf star lingers at the center of ...

which were captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, show two planetary nebulae in the midst of some very interesting activity. The nebulae, NGC 7027 and NGC 6302 (nicknamed the Butterfly Nebula for ...

Balick and his colleagues compared Hubble Space Telescope images of the Butterfly Nebula from 2009 with more recent images captured in 2020. And the weirdness compounded. In most planetary nebulae ...

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a scene made famous by its sibling, the James Webb Space Telescope. One of the first images released from Webb showed the Carina Nebula, a particularly ...

As the Hubble Space Telescope celebrates the 35th anniversary ... NASA said in a release. Distant planetary nebula NGC 2899 is also shown in a colorful moth-shaped orb, which is a result of ...

This towering structure of billowing gas and dark, obscuring dust might only be a small portion of the Eagle Nebula, but it is no less majestic in appearance for it. 9.5 light-years tall and 7000 ...

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