In the cold dark of the constellation Ophiuchus, a faint, wraithlike shell of gas is quietly advertising the fate that awaits our own Sun. Astronomers call it the Little Ghost Nebula, a planetary ...

Orion the Hunter is such a great constellation, and I have to believe many stargazers share the same opinion. Even if you’re ...

Orion the Hunter is such a great constellation and I have to believe many stargazers share the same opinion. Even if you’re ...

Orion the Hunter is such a great constellation and I have to believe many stargazers share the same opinion. Even if you’re ...

Fly about 2,600 light-years to Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Cygnus loop nebula. See images from 2001 and 2020.

A team of scientists has estimated that the Hubble Space Telescope could reenter Earth’s atmosphere and meet its fiery demise ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has caputured new imagery of 9.5 light-years tall portion the Eagle Nebula, located 7000 light-years distant from Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll, N. Bartmann (ESA ...

Recently, the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) took a stunning image of the star cluster known as Westerlund 2, located in ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an uncommon sight—the death of a low-mass star—in this image of the Calabash Nebula released on Feb. 3, 2017. Here, we can see the star going through a rapid ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Astronomers are studying the hundreds of young, brown dwarf stars inside the stellar nursery. Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 ...

Astronomers are studying the hundreds of young, brown dwarf stars inside the stellar nursery. The billowing, vibrantly visualized formation located 20,000 light-years from Earth were imaged using the ...