For years, Spitzer peered through dusty clouds at untold stars and galaxies ... targets and churned out more than 36 million raw images as part of the $1.4 billion mission. An estimated 4,000 ...

New images from the JWST are about as close as we've ever come to seeing the sky of an alien world outside the Solar System.

Cometary globules are a hard-to-detect subclass of so-called Bok globules, which are isolated and dense clouds of gas and ... captures record-breaking image of a dead star's scattered remains ...

A far infrared image of the Small ... The song “Little Fluffy Clouds” was a breakout hit during the dawn of techno music. Turns out, it may also be an apt description of stellar nurseries — the ...

Nebulas are colorful, gorgeous clouds that are capable of giving birth to stars. You may have seen pictures of nebulas on a phone case or on clothing. But why do they look so cool, and what are ...

NGC 685, a smaller cousin of our Milky Way, dazzles with youthful energy as newborn stars light up its spiral arms.

The JWST will help scientists better understand the molecules present in planetary nebulae -- the clouds of gas and dust expelled by dying stars. While the images released this week are ...

Clouds and cliffs ... a full-grown star. Here, gas and dust are clumping together, forming an accretion disk that appears as a small black band at the centre of the image. The protostar embedded ...