Photos: Nebulas, stars, galaxies and clouds as seen by one of NASA’s great eyes in the sky After 16 years of research and discoveries, ... The runaway star Kappa Cassiopeiae, or HD 2905, ...

Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 ...

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The universe is full of cosmic masterpieces, none more so than this stunningly evocative vista of the Chamaeleon I dark cloud. Chamaeleon I is part of the closest star-forming complex to us, the ...

Just 500 light years away, the Chamaeleon Complex, and in particular its dark cloud Chamaeleon I, is a hotbed of young, low-mass stars.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope show astounding images of the Orion Nebula and give a rare look into the way stars and planets are born.

The whole picture doesn’t become clear until you combine Webb data with Hubble data,” stated Rogier Windhorst, Regents Professor at Arizona State University, captioning a revolution in cosmic vision.

As gravity moves around starstuff, new stars are born from clouds of gas and dust. ... Check out JWST’s new image of a star factory Check out JWST’s new image of a star factory.

This region of dense gas and dust, called NGC 346, is the churning engine behind the bright new stars populating the Small Magellanic Cloud, a tiny galaxy that orbits our own Milky Way, but this ...

The images were collated with the use of VISTA's infrared camera, VIRCAM, to reveal vast, cosmic landscapes including dark patches of dust, glowing clouds, newly-born stars and the distant ...