Tag: nebula

It's like a wildfire in space.

Gamma-ray particles trillions of times more energetic than regular light hit the Tibetan plateau.

Weighing without using a scale.

The odds of finding alien life are getting slimmer by the day.

Breathtaking.

A spectacular image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) gives us a glimpse into ...

Using the MUSE instrument aboard ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have made a three dimensional view of the famous ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently completed one of its most thorough and ambitious mozaic projectes. Astronomers at Hubble, stitched together ...

Arguably,  NGC 7293 is maybe the most stunning deep space photograph astronomers have captured thus far. The nebula, located approximately 700 light-years ...

Not too long ago, the Ring nebula was thought to be shaped like a sphere. New Hubble observations, coupled with ...

Two fantastic space telescopes, Hubble and ESA's Herschel, have teamed up to image one of the most popular astronomical sights ...

An infrared image of the Lobster nebula, filled with glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young ...

The Very Large Array radio telescope network in New Mexico recently captured this amazing view of a 20,000 year old ...

Nebulae are among the most brightest objects in the sky, and besides their fantastic halo in the night sky, which ...

Located some 62 million-light years away, the Dorado constellation is home to a galaxy cluster, called the Dorado Group, comprised ...

Located beneath the three stars that form the belt of Orion the Hunter, the Orion Nebula is one of the ...

Around 1843, on the night sky all of a sudden a new luminous star made its appearance. That luminous star, ...

This incredible photo of the Carina Nebuna, a massive star formation , was taken by the  The European Southern Observatory’s Very ...

A new study published by researchers at University of Hong Kong has produced controversial waves among the astronomy community, as ...

The brilliant image from above was captured by Spitzer space telescope and depicts a ring shaped region formed by hot ...

There's nothing Russian about the above fantastic featured photo, but what one can be pretty certain about is that it's ...

The nebula you are looking at is known as the North American nebula, and the pictures were taken with the ...

Just in case you haven't checked it out, the Hubble site has a very impressive collection of pictures that I ...