Just 500 light years away, the Chamaeleon Complex, and in particular its dark cloud Chamaeleon I, is a hotbed of young, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

This magnetic field is parallel to the outflows that ... Webb Space Telescope investigates the origins of 'failed stars' in the Flame Nebula By studying the shape of LBN 483 and the way that ...