This stunning image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a region called G35.2-0.7N, renowned as a hotbed for high-mass star formation. The Crab Nebula is the expanding remnant of a star's ...

The massive star-forming complex known as the Lobster Nebula is part of the biggest infrared map of the Milky Way galaxy ever ...

A new study has discovered the origin of the persistent emission of radiation observed in some deep-space fast radio bursts.

The Rosette Nebula in Monoceros is captured in all its glory, revealing the sites of star formation and the feedback effects ...

These reflection and emission nebulae, along with other types of nebulae, make up some of the most interesting and varied objects in our local part of the universe to observe with a telescope.

The terminator sweeps across the Moon, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS continues to wow, and Jupiter reaches a stationary point in ...

What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

A planetary nebula (PN, plural PNe), is a type of emission nebula consisting of an expanding, glowing shell of ionized gas ejected from red giant stars late in their lives. The term "planetary nebula" ...

The radiation energizes the gas, causing different gases to glow, or emit, at characteristic wavelengths, hence why such a nebula is called an "emission nebula." The filters used in this image ...

Nebulae are all but impossible to spot in the night sky, but you'd never know it. Through a telescope, they make the most jaw-dropping beauty shots. But what is a nebula in the first place?