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 ...

From a Mars rover selfie to an astronaut's view of the flower moon, these space images will give you a new perspective on our ...

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 ...

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.

This week, the famed NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope ... intense blue light in this image. Remnants of the births from many of the stars in the cluster glow in the sparkling pink nebula and ...

Illuminated by the giant blue star Rigel, this enchanted blue nebula looks like the silhouette of a cackling space crone in the ... light onto a coccoon of dust. Galaxy M74, also called the ...

The observatory captured thousands of images of the spiral galaxy ... swirl of red, blue and purple. The solar objects featured in the photos include the "Crab Nebula" and Cassiopeia A, supernova ...

Day 21 of the 2024 Space Telescope ... Milky Way galaxy. A massive young star is responsible for the furious activity we see inside the nebula. Twin lobes of super-hot gas, glowing blue in this ...

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.

The James Webb Space ... Nebula in dazzling new detail. Also known as 30 Doradus, the Tarantula Nebula is a star-forming region around 160,000 light years away within the Large Magellanic Cloud ...

The powerful NASA/ESA/CSA space telescope released ... The Tarantula Nebula is about 161,000 light-years away from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy and is home to some of the hottest ...

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 ...