NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning images of a "cosmic tarantula": the Tarantula Nebula. The nebula, officially called 30 Doradus, earned its spider nickname because "the region ...

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NASA's highly sensitive James Webb Space Telescope has captured an extremely detailed image of thousands of never-before-seen young stars in a region known as the Tarantula Nebula. Located in the ...

One of the biggest mysteries in cosmology today is what exactly the universe is made up of. We know that all of the ordinary matter in the universe makes up just 5% of the total universe, with the ...

Planetary nebulae have been studied for centuries, but astronomers are getting new looks and a better understanding of the structures and compositions of these gaseous remnants of dying stars thanks ...

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In a remarkable display of cosmic beauty, NASA has revealed the awe-inspiring Trifid Nebula, a vibrant region where new stars are born. This celestial masterpiece showcases a convergence of three ...

A group of extremely bright stars may be slowly reshaping the Orion Nebula and stopping one of their neighbors from forming planets, new James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest. When you ...

The cataclysmic explosion that spawned the supernova remnant simultaneously gave rise to a superdense pulsar, which was ...

Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher has captured a colorful view of the Heart Nebula (IC 1805), which is located some 6,000 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captures the bright Orion Nebula. Credit: ESA / Webb / NASA / CSA / M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) / PDRs4All ERS Team Astronomers have detected for the first time in space a ...

Scientists are using modern technology to peer heavenward. This is an Inside Science story. Since ancient times, people gazing up at the night sky have seen animals, gods and goddesses, and other ...