Animated map of Orion’s Horsehead Nebula showing 100 separate views in sequence. The yellow and white areas have the most intense radiation from carbon atoms ...

The Crab nebula’s magnetic field has been mapped in more detail than ever before. This churning mass of hot gas and dust is one of the best-studied cosmic objects, but this new map shows it is even ...

“These fragments may be the remains of once-larger clouds that have been shredded by the enormous energy being released by young and massive stars, a process dubbed feedback,” says Tony Wong, who led ...

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has produced a detailed map of the magnetic field of the Crab Nebula. The Crab Nebula is a cosmic object located 6,500 light-years away, resulting from ...

In 2009, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like a hand. Since then, astronomers have used Chandra and other telescopes ...

A fresh investigation of the planetary nebula NGC 6563 has revealed that its most unusual structures are far older than the ...

Space Pictures This Week: Pink Nebula, Moon Map, More See an hourglass-shaped nebula, a space "garbage truck," and an "amazing" new map of the moon—among this week's best space pictures.

Roughly 5,000 light-years from Earth, a dying star is producing temperatures colder than the void of deep space itself. The ...

This composite image shows the star-forming region 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula. The background image, taken in the infrared, is itself a composite: it was captured by the HAWK-I ...

Astronomers have unveiled intricate details of the star-forming region 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, using new observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...