Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula.

The nebula gets its name from the fact that it resembles the North American continent. But few images – I only found half a dozen in Astrobin prior to this, for reference – offer a real ...

Death and new life meet in a photo showing off a nebula located 7,500 light-years away. The Carina Nebula — recently photographed by the VISTA telescope in the Southern Hemisphere — is a 300 ...

Over 50,000 submissions are made for images on U.S. stamps every year, and out of those, about 40 are turned into real stamps ...

NGC 1499, known as the "California Nebula" due to its resemblance to the shape of California, is a luminous nebula emitting light in various wavelengths. It stretches about 100 light-years (1 ...

This photo represents a new look at the Necklace Nebula from Hubble. The earlier look, from 2011, wasn't quite as colorful, but this new one, snapped by the satellite's Wide Field Camera 3 ...

Hubble’s Blue Bubble: The distinctive blue bubble appearing to encircle WR 31a is a Wolf–Rayet nebula — an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other gases. Carina Nebula’s ...

Hubble Space Telescope image of the colorful clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years from Earth. . | Credit: ESA/Hubble ...

Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of a nearby ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula ... best Hubble Space Telescope images of all time!