T he Orion Nebula, the closest massive star-forming region to Earth, has long captivated stargazers with its brilliant glow ...

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in the universe.

On winter evenings, Orion is one of the easiest star patterns ... Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed over 150 such "getting-ready-to-make-planets" disks, an indication ...

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...

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.

The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young central star cluster called Dolidze 25, located outside of the image frame.

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and the Hubble Space Telescope can see them. Two new photos taken by the intrepid telescope and released to celebrate the eye on the sky's 28th birthday show the Lagoon Nebula, a region of space ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been hunting for brown dwarfs for decades. Previously, Hubble identified possible candidates in a region of the Flame Nebula called the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.

The rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in the center of the nebula is the dynamo powering ... ancestors were just beginning to farm. This Hubble image reveals the true shape of MyCn18 to ...

Lindberg (The Johns Hopkins University); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly in a new image from the ...