Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN)'s backdrop is dominated by the Eagle Nebula — a vast cosmic structure of dust and hydrogen-rich gas ...

A glowing nebula located approximately 2,700 light-years from Earth resembles a guitar with a bright pulsar at the tip of the headstock, earning the nickname "flame-throwing guitar." When you purchase ...

This gallery shows four planetary nebulas from the first systematic survey of such objects in the solar neighborhood made with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The planetary nebulas shown here are ...

In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Hubble once again lifts the veil on a famous — and frequently photographed — supernova remnant: the Veil Nebula. ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sankrit One of the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has “caught” the Boomerang Nebula in these new images taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys. This reflecting cloud of dust and gas has two nearly symmetric lobes (or ...

The fourth day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features a cluster of powerful infant stars blasting a ...

Nebulas, which are both hubs of star birth and products of stars' demise, explode and transform with light and color as the stellar life cycle unfolds within them. These giant clouds of dust and gas ...

NASA’s space telescopes tuned into an epic cosmic rock show, capturing new images of a space guitar that’s billowing in the wake of an erratic neutron star as it releases a flame-like streak across ...

Why it's so special: The death of a star can be the catalyst for one of the most beautiful sights in the universe. To see that, look no further than the latest images from the James Webb Space ...

To locate the Ring Nebula, Rao advises facing due east around 10 p.m. local daylight time. You'll find the ring lying about halfway between the two 3rd-magnitude stars Sheliak and Sulafat, which form ...

Learn how to create a nebula in Photoshop with this detailed step-by-step tutorial. Whether you're an artist, designer, or ...

NASA, Donald Walter/South Carolina State University/Paul Scowen/ Brian Moore/Arizona State University A glimpse up at the night sky will reveal a seemingly endless landscape of twinkling stars, but ...