The image, taken by the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, ...

NASA captured a new composite image of the Crab Nebula features X-rays from Chandra. The Eskimo Nebula, also known as the Clown Face Nebula, Lion Nebula, or Caldwell 39, is a bipolar double-shell ...

When a mid-sized star like the Sun runs out of fuel, it expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star ...

Sharpless 2-106 is a nebula several light-years across, seen here by Hubble in 2011. It lies 2,000 light-years away, in a ...

Space Telescope Image: Hundreds of objects of varying colors, shapes, and sizes scattered across the dark space background. A yellow star at the center with a mottled gas and dust disk, transitioning ...

As a result, the nebula appears to stay exactly the same shape. But in reality, it would have morphed over time, just like the jet. Pulsar jets are created by a combination of the undead star's ...

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. The Guitar Nebula is the ghostly shape angled across this image that combines data from the Chandra ... [+] X-ray Observatory and the ...