NASA recently shared a stunning photo of a nebula that contains stars more massive than the Sun. According to the agency, many of the stars in this nebula are only about a million years old, which ...

In the previous installment of this series, we learned how star maps help astrophotographers in Alameda locate objects millions of light years away. Today you’ll see how these photos get their ...

The “tadpoles” for which the nebula is named are two distinct streamerlike “tails” of gas silhouetted against a darker backdrop of dust in the northeastern regions of the complex.

It is called the Tadpole nebula because the masses of hot, young stars are blasting out ultraviolet radiation that has etched the gas into two tadpole-shaped pillars, called Sim 129 and Sim 130.

1719 Jens, an asteroid passing through our solar system, passed in front of the Tadpole Nebula, about 12,000 light-years away, in a new infrared snapshot taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey ...

In the asteroid photo, the space rock 1719 Jens appears as aseries of yellow-green blobs peppering the otherwise colorful Tadpole nebula. Asecond asteroid even makes an appearance, which NASA ...

Skywatcher and photographer Bill Snyder snapped this view of the tadpoles in nebula IC 410, which roughly 12,000 light-years away. The tadpoles are 10 light-years long.

About 12,000 light years away, the Tadpole Nebula is forming new stars. some as young as a million years old ("infants in stellar terms," says NASA). In this infrared image, created by stitching ...

This tadpole-shaped nebula is known as CG12. It is an example of a “cometary globule,” where a denser region of dust trails off into thread-like strands. While challenging to see in ...

Amid the Soul Nebula's harsh red light, a cocoon of gas holds baby stars in the making in this ethereal new Hubble telescope image.

It is called the Tadpole Nebula because the masses of hot young stars are blasting out ultraviolet radiation that has etched the gas into two tadpole-shaped pillars, called Sim 129 and Sim 130.