The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars shaping the nebula to the pillars of dense gas that may be the homes of budding stars. The Trapezium resides in the ...
This one—called “Parker’s Star,” the remnant of the supernova SN 1181, named for the year it appeared in Earth’s skies—lies ...
There's a bright "star" shining in the east after dark. It's Jupiter, which is now approaching it's biggest, brightest and ...
The Crab Nebula is first on his list and is therefore ... You should also have access to a dark, clear sky, for although relatively bright as planetary nebulas go at visual magnitude +8.4, the ...
Life on Earth will have been long gone before our Sun's planetary nebula stage arrives. But we can look through our telescope ...
From the mysterious 'Dark Nebulae' to the majestic sight showing the birth of new stars, check out these 7 enchanting images ...
However, two classes of celestial objects — double stars and planetary nebulae — break this rule ... So although these objects are not all that bright, their light is concentrated in a ...
The bright planet will pass close to M8 and M20 ... Tonight, we’re hunting down the Blue Snowball (NGC 7662), a planetary nebula in the constellation Andromeda. Planetary nebulae are generated ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided us with some of the most awe-inspiring images of the universe, giving humanity a ...
Astronomers studying the site of a supernova seen 843 years ago have captured an image of the strange filaments left behind by the stellar explosion.