While Webb’s image of the nebula is the latest, it likely will not be the last, as the stellar nursery is the birthplace of planets, young brown dwarfs and baby stars. “We are particularly ...

A hazy Nebula: This new image from Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 showcases NGC 1501, a complex planetary nebula ...

The Twin Jet Nebula: The Twin Jet Nebula, or PN M2-9, is a striking example of a bipolar planetary nebula. The Hourglass ...

Laplace did not reach this conclusion at once. At first he supposed that the solar system originated in a stellar nebula which threw off rings, from which the planets were formed, and from this he ...

From the star-forming Carina Nebula, located 7,600 light-years away, to the dramatic bipolar region Sharpless 2-106, Hubble ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures the mesmerizing galaxy LEDA 22057, home to a recent supernova explosion, SN 2024PI. This ...

O-type or B-type stellar objects, blast other stars with high-energy radiation to strip away their outer layers. This idea fits because the star-forming Orion nebula is replete with hot and ...

In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...

This new image from the James Webb Space Telescope features the young star cluster NGC 602, surrounded by the varied clouds ...

At the center of the Heart Nebula is a young star born in the open cluster Melotte 15. The powerful light and stellar winds emitted by this star sculpt various forms of dust pillars. This wide ...