The Calabash Nebula spans about 1.4 light-years and is named after the uneven shape of a calabash gourd. Its striking ...

Here are the seven most stunning Nebula pictures, revealing the universe's beauty through Hubble's lens., Technology & ...

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In the cold dark of the constellation Ophiuchus, a faint, wraithlike shell of gas is quietly advertising the fate that awaits ...

The best JWST images reveal galaxies, nebulae, and cosmic structures in stunning infrared clarity. These James Webb photos ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently peered into one-third of a unique nebula. The revolutionary telescope studies the cosmos in the infrared, a part of the electromagnetic spectrum that is ...

The helium hydride cation (HeH+), a molecule formed by the two elements at the top of the periodic table, was first synthesized a by-product in a laboratory back in 1925. Scientists have long ...

A team of researchers has cooled matter to within a billionth of a degree of absolute zero, colder than even the deepest depths of space , far away from any stars. Interstellar space never gets this ...

Nebulas, which are both hubs of star birth and products of stars' demise, explode and transform with light and color as the stellar life cycle unfolds within them. These giant clouds of dust and gas ...