The Tarantula Nebula glows with powerful stars and chaotic dust, captured in vivid detail by the Hubble Space Telescope. It’s ...

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The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which operates Webb, recently released an image of a planetary nebula known as ...

In a recent breakthrough, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a joint mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), ...

The Tarantula Nebula is “the largest and most productive star-forming region in the local universe,” with stars roughly 200 times as massive as the sun at its center, according to NASA. This ...

Since the discovery of planetary nebulae in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that these expanding shells of glowing ...

The Southern Ring Nebula was imaged in December 2022 by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which revealed molecular hydrogen gas forming the nebula's "exoskeleton." ...

The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of ...

The Cat's Eye Nebula, also known as NGC6543, formed when an aging sun-like star cast its outer layers into space, forming a dense central cocoon of dust surrounded by a diffuse veil of stellar ...