In an attempt to find out, last year, Kastner and his colleagues used the Submillimeter Array (SMA) — a network of radio dishes atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii — to gather high-resolution images of the Ring ...

The Rosette Nebula blossoms in deep space, captured in this wonderful image taken by the high-resolution Dark Energy Camera, ...

The new image on the left shows the nebula in the infrared, using observations from Hubble’s high-resolution Wide Field Camera 3. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has provided us with an extraordinary view of the Ring Nebula that we've never seen before. The high-resolution images not only showcase the intricate details of the ...

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth’s point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...

NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and ...

According to the most widely held astronomical model (the nebular hypothesis), new stars are born from massive clouds of dust and gas (aka a nebula ... ALMA to capture high-resolution images ...

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 ...

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 ...