The Prawn Nebula is some 6,000 light-years distant, and is projected to cover a region of sky around four times the size of the full moon. Keep in mind, it's very faint, and can't be spotted with ...

New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.

Astronomers have solved the 16-year-old mystery surrounding the Blue Ring Nebula - an unusual, large, faint blob of gas with a star at its center. This object is unlike any they'd ever seen before ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has gazed at the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. Since the recording of this energetic event in ...

The Gum 19 star-forming nebula, as photographed in the infrared by the European Southern Observatory’s New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, appears half-light, half-dark.

Astronomers were surprised when they discovered what appeared to be a star surrounded by an ultraviolet ring 16 years ago. It became known as the Blue Ring Nebula, located 6,300 light-years away ...

The blue hand-like structure was created by energy emanating from the nebula around they dying star PSR B1509-58. The red areas are from a neighboring gas cloud called RCW 89. (Image credit: NASA ...

The Cone Nebula is part of a star-forming region of space, NGC 2264, about 2500 light-years away. ...More Its pillar-like appearance is a perfect example of the shapes that can develop in giant ...