Blue stars are by far the biggest and brightest stars in the galaxy. To the naked eye ... than the sun Cosmic imposter bathes distant nebula in fiery red glow: 'This star should not be here ...

Astronomy Space photo of the week ... star-forming complex known as the Lobster Nebula is part of the biggest infrared map of the Milky Way galaxy ever created. When you purchase through links ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ... spanning from the Sunflower Galaxy to the Omega Nebula. The Omega Nebula, found about 5,500 light-years from Earth, is a hotbed of ...

the blue dwarf galaxy that sits to its immediate center-left. NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual ...

Iconic 'Eagle Nebula' gets a major glow-up on Hubble's 35th anniversary Astronomy Space photo of the week: Hubble zooms in on the glittering galaxy next door Astronomy Space photo of the week ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare celestial jewel -- a so-called Planetary Nebula (PN ... astronomers led by members of the Laboratory for Space Research (LSR) and Department of Physics at ...

The stunning image shows the classic spiral swirl of M81 — also known as Bode's Galaxy — suspended against the chaotic cloud patterns of the nebula ... Meyer told Space.com in an email.

NGC 6357 is known as an emission nebula, a region of space where gas is ionized by extreme ultraviolet radiation, which, in the case of NGC 6357, is caused by its massive young blue-white stars.