The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...

Today I dive deep into the many different types of nebulas, from the classic diffuse nebula, to supernova remnants, all the way to dark nebulas, all with the amazing help of Space Engine to shows ...

Mars’ features are starting to become visible, Mercury appears in the evening sky, and the Trifid Nebula glows in the sky ...

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by ...

In 1910, American astronomer Daniel Walter Morehouse used a Sigma Lumière dry plate to make a long exposure of the North America Nebula (NGC 7000) — the central figure of a region “most ...

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 ...

It is about 25 000 light-years from Earth. - NGC 6357: A diffuse nebula containing the open cluster Pismis 24, home to several very massive stars. - NGC 6334: An emission nebula also known as the ...

This allows us to better understand the physical relationship between the engine of FRBs and the surrounding nebula.” Luigi ...

(c) The 2.1 m KPNO [O iii] image, which we have stacked and rebinned from individual frames to enhance the low surface brightness, diffuse shell ... from the core of the nebula.

A 3-D map of the strange remains of a supernova seen in 1181 traces the odd tendrils of gas that jut out for several light-years in all directions.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the "ram pressure" inside a massive cluster of galaxies.