Nebula

A curtain lifted when the VISTA telescope in Cerro Paranal, Chile, looked at the Sh2-54 nebula in the Serpens constellation. Once-hidden stars come into view.Look up, and it’s easy to get lost. So skygazers have devised ways to make the…

The Hubble Space Telescope snapped this image of the planetary nebula, cataloged as NGC 6302, with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). More popularly called the Bug Nebula or the Butterfly Nebula, NGC 6302 looks like a delicate butterfly,…

If you thought dark matter was difficult to study, studying dark energy is even more challenging. Dark energy is perhaps the most subtle phenomenon in the universe. It drives the evolution of the cosmos, but its effects are only seen on…

This Hubble image gives the most detailed view of the entire Crab Nebula ever. The Crab is among the most interesting and well-studied objects in astronomy. This image is the largest image ever taken with Hubble’s WFPC2 camera. It was…

By ESA/Hubble August 8, 2022Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful region surrounding the Herbig-Haro object HH 505. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Bally, Acknowledgment: M. H. ÖzsaraçThis vibrant celestial cloudscape from the…

The story of our solar system’s origin is pretty well known. It goes like this: the Sun began as a protostar in its “solar nebula” over 4.5 billion years ago. Over the course of several million years, the planets emerged from this…

The Orion Nebula is a well-known feature in the night sky and is visible in small backyard telescopes. Orion is a busy place. The region is known for active star formation and other phenomena. It’s one of the most scrutinized features…

There's no question that young solar systems are chaotic places. Cascading collisions defined our young Solar System as rocks, boulders, and planetesimals repeatedly collided.A new study based on chunks of asteroids that crashed into…

A new image of the Flame Nebula shows the interstellar cloud as we've never seen it before.A team of astronomers using the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope has captured the star-forming region in radio wavelengths,…

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Z. Levay This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope revisits the Veil Nebula, which was featured in a previous Hubble image release. In…