Gaze into the colorful remnants of a long-dead star in this image of the Veil Nebula captured by astrophotographer Miguel ...

Crab Nebula: This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 ...

A planetary nebula (PN, plural PNe), is a type of emission nebula consisting of an expanding, glowing shell of ionized gas ejected from red giant stars late in their lives. The term "planetary nebula" ...

Weeks after NASA's 1999 Hubble repair, the Hubble Heritage Project captured this image of NGC 1999, a nebula in Orion, using the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. This Hubble image shows RS Puppis, a ...

Chondritic meteorites (chondrites) are some of the oldest rocks in our solar system, forming 4.5 billion years ago. Therefore ...

This stunning image, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, features G35.2-0.7N, a region renowned as a hub for high-mass ...

Each week, Astronomy magazine Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich, a master at explaining how to observe, posts a podcast about three or more objects or events you can see in the sky.

A planetary nebula marks the end of 90% of all stars active lives and traces the star’s transition from a red giant to a degenerate white dwarf. But, for years, scientists weren’t sure if the sun in ...

What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

Using more than 100 spectacular images from the Hubble Space Telescope, Cosmic Butterflies explores the beauty of the most mysterious celestial objects in space, planetary nebulae. The mystery begins ...