Recently, the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) took a stunning image of the star cluster known as Westerlund 2, located in ...

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively ...

Each ring is formed in the aftermath of an explosion, giving insight into the dynamic activity of SVS 13 from its infancy. An ...

The Rosette Nebula blossoms in deep space, captured in this wonderful image taken by the high-resolution Dark Energy Camera, illustrating how hot, bright stars at the heart of the Rosette are ...

The nebula is easy to spot in the night sky, where it’s most visible in the Northern Hemisphere from roughly November to ...

“Everything has its finale, nothing lasts forever.” These lyrics, from iconic salsero Héctor Lavoe, come to mind when presented with NOIRLab’s dazzling image of the Toby Jug Nebula. About 1,200 ...

Orion the Hunter is such a great constellation, and I have to believe many stargazers share the same opinion. Even if you’re ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the Milky Way’s closest companions, continues to astonish astronomers with its ...

John Martin Schaeberle discovered IC 405 near the end of the 19th century. The object was independently spotted shortly after by astrophotographers Max Wolf and Eugen von Gothard. It’s located in ...

An international team of astronomers have discovered two stars in a binary pair that complete an orbit around each other in a little over three hours, residing in the planetary nebula M3-1. Remarkably ...

Planetary nebulae represent a brief, yet illuminating, phase in the evolution of low- to intermediate-mass stars. These glowing shells of ionised gas are shed in the late stages of stellar development ...

The Lagoon Nebula (M8), located approximately 4,100 light-years away in Sagittarius, is visible to the naked eye under dark skies. Giovanni Battista Hodierna first documented the nebula in 1654, ...