Nebulas are mostly made up of dust, hydrogen, helium, and ionised gases. There are four types of nebulae: planetary nebulas, ...

To see the Crab Nebula for yourself, you'll have to wait until around midnight local daylight time, after it has sufficiently ...

The European Southern Observatory captured a Halloween-themed image of the Dark Wolf Nebula, a hauntingly dense cloud of ...

Astronomers offered a new hypothesis for what created pairs of objects nicknamed JuMBOs, while other scientists argue they ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is shedding light on mysteries surrounding brown dwarfs, following decades of questions ...

The object – which has the full name C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) – was found last year but in recent weeks has passed close ...

The nebula constitutes a clump of cloud in a larger complex known as Gum 55, a large region of glowing nebulosity in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located ...

Newborn stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust within which planets are born, known as protoplanetary disks. In the ...

In addition to this beautiful image of R Aquarii and Cederblad 211 from the Hubble Space Telescope, a time-lapse video was ...

From the mesmerizing Butterfly Nebula to the grand 'Pillars of Creation', check out these astonishing images of nebulae ...

While some dark nebulas are visible to the naked eye, such as the Coalsack Nebula, that isn't true of the Dark Wolf Nebula. Fortunately, the VLT is kitted out with a special camera that allows it to ...