A young star in the constellation Perseus has just rewritten the script for how stars are born. Astronomers mapping its surroundings in three dimensions uncovered an intricate stack of more than 400 ...
Day 4 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Star Birth in the Lobster Nebula. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged a region where the radiation and winds from a group of superhot ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed new details in a bizarre nebula that looks like a brain floating in space. Formed ...
The Ring Nebula is a well-known space icon shaped like a doughnut about 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. But astronomers think it's been holding a secret that only the penetrating ...
J.-C. Cuillandre & E. Bertin (CEA Paris-Saclay), Z. Tsvetanov This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features one of the most visually intricate remnants of a dying star: the Cat’s Eye Nebula, ...