Satellite views and space telescopes allow scientists to see amazing wonders, such as sand seas in the Namib Desert, "spiderweb" formations on Mars, and even distant nebulae. Sometimes, though, a ...
A rapidly brightening burst of light called AT 2024wpp, or "the Whippet", is baffling astronomers. One explanation is that it ...
Something in the constellation Vela (a southern Milky Way region visible mainly from the Southern Hemisphere) looks a little like a brain floating in space. Astronomers have been calling it the ...
The Hubble and Euclid space telescopes caught a stunning portrait of a dying star at the heart of the Cat's Eye Nebula.
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed infrared portrait of a dying star’s ghostly remains: a planetary ...
An 8th-grade astrophotographer from Apple Valley captured a stunning image of the Bubble Nebula, 7,000 light-years away.
A dying star’s final breath creates a haunting, brain-shaped cosmic silhouette.
Nebula PMR 1 is a cloud of gas and dust that bears an uncanny resemblance to a brain in a transparent skull, inspiring its nickname, the "Exposed Cranium" nebula. Webb captured its unusual features in ...
According to astronomers, these types of aging stars produce large amounts of cosmic dust and spread it into space.
Two of the world’s most powerful space telescopes have joined forces to produce a stunning new image of the Cat’s Eye Nebula, one of the most visually complex objects in the known universe. The ...
NASA and ESA’s Hubble and Euclid telescopes provide a new image of the Cat’s Eye Nebula, showing detailed structures and previously unused data for updated views of NGC 6543.
The unmatched sensitivity of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope in both near- and mid-infrared light sheds new light on PMR 1, a little-studied nebula in the constellation of Vela.