The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars shaping the nebula to the pillars of dense gas that may be the homes of budding stars. The Trapezium resides in the ...

NASA’s Dark Energy Camera (DECam) has captured an awe-inspiring, high-resolution image of the Rosette Nebula, a star-forming ...

This blood-curdling celestial werewolf imaged by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile is the fittingly named "Dark Wolf Nebula." In the image ...

Inside the bright but unassumingly named nebula Gum 55 lies a dark nebula — a rift of dust grains that absorb visible light — creating a swatch of darkness against the glow of bright gas.

Helix Nebula: This a planetary nebula, which is formed when a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. Thanks For Reading!

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 ...

Nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, the cloud is in the Scorpius constellation near the middle of the Milky Way, around 5,300 light-years from Earth. This image takes up an area in the sky equivalent ...

This blood-curdling celestial werewolf imaged by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile is the fittingly named "Dark Wolf Nebula." In the image, the ...

It shows what's known as the Dark Wolf Nebula. 5,300 light-years from Earth, it looks like a black hole in space in the shape of a wolf. But it's actually a cloud of space dust in which stars are ...