Lagoon Nebula: Located in in the Sagittarius, this cosmic cloud displays swirling pinks and blues from young stars. It is about 4,000 light-years away from us. In this false-color image, NASA's ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the planetary nebula Kohoutek 4-55. ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll When a star comes to the end of its life and dies, it can be an epic and ...

These were from the central white dwarf of the Helix Nebula. The origin was unknown for years. Recent observations have changed the perspective. Scientists used images from the Hubble and NASA's ...

the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is very real. We are seeing vast clouds of ionized atoms and molecules, thrown into space by a dying star. This is a planetary nebula ...

A new Hubble Space Telescope image offers the most detailed view of the Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years from Earth. The star V830 Orionis features NGC 1999 reflection nebula ...

Recent research has uncovered what appears to be the grizzly death of an exoplanet in the nearby Helix Nebula, which seems to have been devoured by a dying star. Researchers have been detecting X ...

A new X-ray look at the mesmerizing Helix Nebula reveals an ... Now, a new look at the nebula combines X-ray emissions ...

That work was done in the 1920s by Edwin Hubble, the American astronomer for whom the telescope is named. This stunning image shows another part of the Tarantula Nebula, where clouds of colorful ...

"NGC 346’s hot, massive stars produce intense radiation and fierce stellar winds that pummel the billowing gas of their birthplace, dispersing the surrounding nebula." This is Hubble's second ...

Surrounding the cluster in the Hubble image is a glowing pink cloud called a nebula, where hot, young stars give off ultraviolet light that illuminates the surrounding hydrogen gas. These bright ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula ... in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.