NASA, Donald Walter/South Carolina State University/Paul Scowen/ Brian Moore/Arizona State University A glimpse up at the night sky will reveal a seemingly endless landscape of twinkling stars, but ...

As the name suggests, the nebula looks like a yolk hidden inside an opaque egg white.

New Hubble images of the Egg Nebula in the constellation Cygnus brings us the clearest look at the first, youngest, and ...

A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like star’s death just 1,000 light-years away. Hidden inside a dense cocoon of dust, ...

It's the final act for a star in the constellation Cygnus, some 1,000 light-years away. But this star is not dying without ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured the ​​colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most luminous and ...

Few things are as captivating as a dark, star-filled sky. But the stars we see and enjoy don’t just “exist”; they all came into being long ago inside of massive clouds of gas and dust known as ...

The Flame Nebula is one of many gems included in the Orion constellation, and astronomers have now captured a new perspective of this striking celestial feature. While the Flame Nebula appears to live ...

NASA shared a Valentine’s Day image of a heart-shaped nebula showing newborn stars forming within glowing gas and cosmic dust clouds.

Many know the Great Orion Nebula (M42) in Orion’s Sword as a bright diffuse nebula — a glowing cloud of cosmic gas illuminated by the Trapezium star cluster. But the Orion Nebula also has a dark side, ...

The stunning image captures a star's dying moments wrapped in dust, light, and a cosmic conundrum still waiting to be solved.