Popular VISTA Image of the Orion Nebula
Taken by ESO’s VISTA survey telescope, this popular image shows a wide-field view of the Orion Nebula (Messier 42), which resides about 1,350 light-years from…
Taken by ESO’s VISTA survey telescope, this popular image shows a wide-field view of the Orion Nebula (Messier 42), which resides about 1,350 light-years from…
Located about 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Orion, protostar V1647 Ori gave astronomers the first direct evidence that a protostar surges in X-ray activity…
Using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer’s four infrared bands, scientists have released a new image showing a vast cloud of gas and dust…
Using the Herschel Space Observatory, CfA astronomers led a team in search of molecular oxygen in the Orion Nebula, reporting that they still did not…
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the butterfly-shaped cloud of glowing gas and dust that is the wreckage of a star similar…
New images captured by the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope show clouds of cosmic dust threaded through the nebula Messier 78. The images were created by…
A new image produced from exposures in visible and infrared light from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 shows a star from the Egg Nebula running…
A new image of 30 Doradus was released by ESA and NASA to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 22nd anniversary. The panoramic image shows the…
Astrophysicists knew the pulses emitted from the Crab Nebula were powerful, but what they found was 50 to 100 times higher than theorists thought possible….
European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have provided researchers with new images of the Orion nebula that revealed a host…
The Crab Nebula (NGC 1952) is easily visible through small telescopes, which has allowed astronomers to observe its growth and evolution, ever since its birth…
Astronomers have combined hundreds of images, including ones in the infrared spectrum, to provide the most detailed view of the Carina Nebula, a stellar nursery…
The Helix Nebula in the Aquarius constellation, located some 700 light-years away from Earth, was just observed by the piercing infrared gaze of the VISTA…
The European Space Agency’s Hershel space telescope has captured new, gorgeous views of the Eagle Nebula, located 6,500 light-years away in the Serpens constellation. The…
It’s amazing to think that a NASA telescope mounted in a specially modified Boeing 747SP jet can look into the heart of a nebula where…