Astronomers are rethinking what looks like the Milky Way’s quieter neighborhood, as new analysis of nearby gas clouds points ...

Astronomers are drawing attention to a Christmas Tree-shaped cluster of stars glowing inside one of the Milky Way’s most active stellar nurseries. Known as the Cosmic Christmas Tree, the cluster sits ...

Webb captured the object in infrared — light wavelengths that are invisible to human eyes but can pierce through thick dust.

Two heads are better than one in the latest images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which reveal new detail in a ...

The Chandra team has released a striking new composite image of the Cocoon Nebula, a reflection and emission nebula in the ...

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As children, many of us remember lying on terraces or open fields, trying to count stars. One, two, three and then losing ...

Planetary nebulae represent a brief, yet illuminating, phase in the evolution of low- to intermediate-mass stars. These glowing shells of ionised gas are shed in the late stages of stellar development ...

Webb’s latest image of the Helix Nebula reveals a dramatic close-up of a dying star shedding its outer layers. The detailed view highlights glowing knots of gas shaped by fast-moving stellar winds ...