Every star you see in the night sky forms from a nebula, which is a large region of dust and gas in space. One such nebula, the Lagoon Nebula, is visible with binoculars or small telescopes and is ...

At its heart is a star cluster, NGC 2244 ... appears to spiral as it twists around the magnetic field lines entwined within the nebula. Also, among the gases are many Bok globules — compact ...

NGC 7635, also called the Bubble Nebula, is an emission nebula lit from within by the hot, young star SAO 20575.

This magnetic field is parallel to the outflows ... in that it does not seem to be part of a larger star-forming region like ...

This image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals the locations of various elements in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, including silicon (red), sulfur (yellow), calcium (green), and iron ...

The Wide Field Camera 3 was installed on Hubble ... Within a few million years, NASA says radiation and winds from the stars will gradually disperse the nebula’s gas. During its waning years ...

The Veil Nebula is roughly 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. It is the remnants of a star that was roughly ... filters by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and highlights hydrogen ...

Unlike star clusters, he couldn't distinguish individual stars within it. Thanks to the Webb telescope, scientists are now studying the nebula in ... those from the Wide-field Infrared Survey ...

This stunning portrait of a star-forming nebula is a throwback ... to spiral as it twists around the magnetic field lines entwined within the nebula. Also, among the gases are many Bok globules ...