The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured ...

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Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

This week, see zombie fungi trapped in an amber fossil, explore the sun’s hidden south pole, meet tool-using whales that ...

The only evening planet for July is Mars, faint red in the west at dusk, and getting lost in the Sun’s glare by August. High ...

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

This emission is strongest under conditions which are intermediate between those in the interior of nebula and those in the dense cloud.

The Owl Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula — a type of object that yields glimpses of stellar death in slow motion.

Stellar evolution refers to the life-cycle of a star, typically including the evolutionary phases from protostar until stellar death (as a supernova, black hole, neutron star, white dwarf, etc.).

NGC 460 lies in a young region of stellar clusters and nebulae, home to brilliant O-type main-sequence stars—the hottest, ...

Hubble Captures Spectacular “Landscape” In The Carina Nebula This Hubble picture shows a towering cloud of cold gas and dust in the Carina Nebula, 7,500 light-years away. Rising from a turbulent ...