Day 21 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: inside a chaotic nebula. Sharpless 2-106 is a nebula several light-years across, seen here by Hubble in 2011. It lies 2,000 light-years away ...

This butterfly shaped nebula is the perfect target for the James Webb Space Telescope to learn more about star formation.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. This composite image shows the star-forming region 30 Doradus, also ...

For more than 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals coming from the Helix Nebula, a cloud of gas left behind by a dying star. Now, thanks to powerful space telescopes, ...

Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of a nearby ...

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

Stunning James Webb Space Telescope images reveal new details about a pair of mysterious infrared rings around planetary ...

A not-so-distant white dwarf named WD 2226-210 has been on our radar since the 1980s for releasing X-rays, now we may know ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud of a young nebula alight with star formation on the hunt for "failed star" brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are stellar ...

That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide), we see a ...

Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula. A huge bipolar outflow of gas and dust, grown from the tumultuous birth of ...