NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Dr. Jennifer Wiseman explains the Hubble Space Telescope's view of the Pillars of Creation ...

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 ...

The Pillars are a prominent feature of the Eagle Nebula, located about 6,500 light-years from Earth. These spires of dust are a buffet of star-forming material — and you can spot some of the ...

At just 1,400 light-years from Earth, the Orion Nebula, M42, is visible to the naked eye as a faint smudge Jupiter-sized "planets" free-floating in space, unconnected to any star, have been ...

The large, fiery-looking structure on the left is the Flame Nebula, a ball of dust and ionized gas with a cluster of newly formed stars at its centre. To the right of that is a smaller nebula ...