This Hubble image shows ESO 455-10, a planetary nebula located in the constellation of Scorpius. The color image is composed of near-infrared and optical observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 ...

This image, taken with the VLT Survey Telescope hosted at ESO's Paranal Observatory, shows the beautiful nebula NGC 6164/6165, also known as the Dragon's Egg. The nebula is a cloud of gas and dust ...

A gorgeous nebula turns out to hold a surprise at its center: a pair of stars that don’t match as they should. Researchers looking at the beautiful NGC 6164/6165 nebula were surprised to learn that ...

Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled by Hubble Space Telescope. The picture is composited from a mosaic of 15 separate fields, covers an area of sky about 5% the area covered by ...

NGC 2024, or the Flame Nebula, is a large star-forming region that makes up part of the Orion constellation and resides roughly 1,400 light-years away from Earth. Besides the Flame Nebula, the Orion ...

This nebula measures a whopping 250 light-years across, and it’s close enough to Earth that its relative size in the sky is equivalent to that of four full Moons. But it’s so faint in the wavelengths ...

NGC 6891 is a bright, asymmetrical planetary nebula. It is made from gas that has been ionized by the central white dwarf star, stripping electrons from hydrogen atoms in the nebula. The glowing gas ...

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When astronomers looked at a stellar pair at the heart of a stunning cloud of gas and dust, they were in for a surprise. Star pairs are typically very similar, like twins, but in HD 148937, one star ...

The nebula (NGC 6164/6165) surrounding HD 148937 as seen in visible light (Credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team. Acknowledgement: CASU) When astronomers looked at a stellar pair at the heart of a stunning cloud of ...