Ever wonder what a nursery for stars looks like? If this image is any indication, it's a beautiful but chaotic place. Taken with the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, ...

This image of the Crab Nebula combines data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) in magenta and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in dark purple. Scientists have mapped the iconic Crab ...

A telescope in Tibet consisting of plastic detectors and underground water vat observed the highest-energy light yet—and it came from one of the most famous light sources in the sky. For the first ...

One of the most well-known celestial objects still has some tricks up its sleeve, according to a new discovery of surprising gamma-ray flares coming from the famous Crab Nebula. The Crab, ...

Nestled some 2,500 light-years away in the Ring Nebula, a star is in the last throes of its life. And as it dances with a companion star, at probably the same distance apart as Earth is to Pluto, the ...

Researchers may have discovered how the famous Cat's Eye Nebula may have formed. The iconic nebula, discovered approximately 3300 light-years away from Earth in 1786, boasts a pair of symmetric rings ...

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a scene made famous by its sibling, the James Webb Space Telescope. One of the first images released from Webb showed the Carina Nebula, a particularly ...

Gone are the days when the Ring Nebula looked sort of like a bagel, or a jelly doughnut, a massive astronomical blob holding the secrets of a dying star. The new images of the famous Ring Nebula from ...

This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope revisits the Veil Nebula, which was featured in a previous Hubble image release. In this image, new processing techniques have been applied, ...

One of the most well-known celestial objects still has some tricks up its sleeve, according to a new discovery of surprising gamma-ray flares coming from the famous Crab Nebula. The Crab, ...