That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide), we see a ...

Initially, the astronomer who first made note of this fuzzy-looking glowing cluster thought it might be a nebula. But it’s not. M3 is what’s called a globular cluster. Scientists believe it’s 11 to 13 ...

Originally predicted to go nova in 2024, buzz about binary star system T Coronae Borealis was rekindled by NASA in early May ...

Astronomers suspect the star, called HD 165319, was once part of a young cluster in the nearby Eagle Nebula, a bustling star-forming region best known for the iconic "Pillars of Creation." ...

A colossal pillar of gas and dust towering 9.5 light-years tall, this spectacular structure in the Eagle Nebula highlights ... gas and dust seen by Hubble's visible and infrared cameras.

Hubble Telescope image of the Horsehead Nebula ... whose active cooling lets it see things below 40 Kelvin, dark nebulae are difficult to find. In the visible spectrum, they mostly just look ...

For example, the Orion Nebula, which was previously thought to be the closest star forming cloud to Earth, is so bright that it’s visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy smudge under Orion’s Belt.

The dust appears orange in the images. The slow decay of the star created much of the solar material visible in the new images. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of ...