Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the Orion Nebula in a new Hubble Space Telescope image ... stars orbit each other and each have a small, dusty disk of material from which ...

Over 50,000 submissions are made for images on U.S. stamps every year, and out of those, about 40 are turned into real stamps. For Kevin Luhman, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...

That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula ... with the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed over 150 such ...

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

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This butterfly shaped nebula is the perfect target for the James Webb Space Telescope to learn more about star formation.

NASA telescopes discover brown dwarf protoplanetary disks in the Orion Nebula Oct 28, 2024 Image: James Webb Space Telescope observes nearby star-forming region NGC 1333 in infrared ...

This dark nebula, made of dust and super-cold gas, lies in the constellation Orion the Hunter. You’ll need a dark observing site and a large telescope, something like an 11-inch Celestron.

This a planetary nebula, which is formed when a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. Orion Nebula: Believed to be the ...

Discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, M20 is a star-forming nebula located 9,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42 or NGC 1976) ...

It provides an ideal opportunity for the James Webb Space Telescope ... far too small on the scale of this image — but if we could imagine zooming in right to the heart of the nebula, between ...