A gorgeous nebula turns out to hold a surprise at its center: a pair of stars that don’t match as they should. Researchers looking at the beautiful NGC 6164/6165 nebula were surprised to learn that ...

This image, taken with the VLT Survey Telescope hosted at ESO's Paranal Observatory, shows the beautiful nebula NGC 6164/6165, also known as the Dragon's Egg. The nebula is a cloud of gas and dust ...

This Hubble image shows ESO 455-10, a planetary nebula located in the constellation of Scorpius. The color image is composed of near-infrared and optical observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. NGC 2024, or the Flame Nebula, is a large star-forming region that makes up part of the Orion constellation and resides roughly 1,400 light-years away from ...

Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled by Hubble Space Telescope. The picture is composited from a mosaic of 15 separate fields, covers an area of sky about 5% the area covered by ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. NGC 6891 exists in the constellation Delphinus, or the Dolphin, and is a bright, asymmetrical planetary nebula. NGC 6891 is a bright, asymmetrical ...

The Orion Nebula has long been one of humankind's most studied regions of space. Now, though, James Webb has given us a look at the Orion Nebula that we've never been given before. Where Hubble and ...

Perhaps our sun will produce something as beautiful as the Cat's Eye Nebula. X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI It’s inevitable; in about 5 billion years our sun will burn up all of the hydrogen ...

When astronomers looked at a stellar pair at the heart of a stunning cloud of gas and dust, they were in for a surprise. Star pairs are typically very similar, like twins, but in HD 148937, one star ...