ESA's Euclid space telescope is on a mission to map the "dark Universe." The space telescope's latest images offer fascinating new insights.
A European dark matter telescope called Euclid has released its first treasure trove of data, showing galaxies by the ...
Astronomers have detected mysterious X-ray signals coming from a nearby white dwarf star for more than 40 years. We may now ...
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What Is a Nebula?
(Neither Titan nor the Crab Nebula are visible to the unaided eye, but with a dark sky and cooperative weather, you can find them with binoculars.) The explosion stripped off the star's outer ...
The Helix Nebula, 650 light-years away, resembles a cosmic eye formed by a dying star’s outer layers shedding.
This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years away. These opaque, dark knots of gas and dust called "Bok globules" are ...
As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous ...
Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula. Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars ...
The Andromeda nebula, M31, was a prominent example. It’s visible to the naked eye from a dark site. The Andromeda galaxy, then known as the Andromeda nebula, is a bright spot in the sky that ...