The Crab Nebula is powered by a quickly spinning, highly magnetized neutron star called a pulsar, which was formed when a massive star ran out of its nuclear fuel and collapsed. Andromeda galaxy ...

The challenge has previously asked observers to observe M1 the Crab Nebula and C39 the Clown Nebula ... and the spiral galaxy C48. Those in the Southern Hemisphere are encouraged to look for ...

Crab Nebula: In the third ... sprinkled with thousands of galaxies of all shapes and sizes. The larger galaxy is ...

NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) detected the magnetic field streamlines shown over this image of the Keyhole Nebula, part of the larger Carina Nebula, captued by the ...

The image captured by the space telescope shows hundreds of objects in a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes scattered across the vast, dark expanse of space. At the center, a bright yellow star is ...