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 ...

With binoculars or a wide-field scope, emission nebula IC 1396 is a vast playground, filled with many other interesting ...

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 ...

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

A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the great achievements in modern astronomy, still producing stunning and scientifically valuable images after more than 30 years of operation. Each week ...

Scientists have discovered a few thousand planetary nebulas in the Milky Way. Those include the Ring Nebula, aka NGC 6720 and ...

There's often at least one star at the core of ... The new image on the left shows the nebula in the infrared, using observations from Hubble’s high-resolution Wide Field Camera 3.

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 ...

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 ...