I tried to emphasize this dragon-like shape in my framing of this photograph, which I have named the "Great Dragon of Pelican." The dark nebula LDN 935, which resembles the figure of a Chinese ...

A "leaked photo of heaven" has been going mega viral on social media this week. The purported photo shows a half-baked and architecturally unsound city, seemingly carved into a chalky material and ...

This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392) because, when viewed through ground-based telescopes, it resembles a face surrounded by a fur ...

A photograph of the Duchess of Edinburgh smiling has been released by Buckingham Palace to celebrate her upcoming 60th birthday. The photo of Sophie mid-laugh perched on a window seat at her home ...

John Wood, who worked as the photographer for the Architect of the Capitol, was present on that day to take the photo above. The image captured crowds of onlookers standing outside the East ...

We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky." One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a ...

An international team of scientists has produced the clearest three-dimensional view yet of the Ring Nebula—one of the night sky's most iconic celestial objects. The Ring Nebula is perhaps one ...

The complexities of lagoon problems and government grant programs appear to have put the Village of Big Valley’s lagoon project on hiatus for a year. Councillors passed several resolutions ...

The world-famous AP photo of Kim Phuc — “The Terror of War,” known popularly as “Napalm Girl” — was taken on June 8, 1972, and credited to Nick Ut, a ...

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 ...