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

In the image of the stellar nursery, or nebula, Sharpless 54 (Sh2–54) appears as an orange glowing orb punctuation by bright stars.Sh2-54 is located around 6000 light-years from Earth in the ...

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The gigantic stellar nursery is one of the most studied objects in space, thanks to its massive size – spanning 24 light years across – and its close proximity to Earth.

Born 4.6 billion years ago, our star is well into midlife and has wandered far from its ancestral home—some nameless, now vanished “stellar nursery” of gas that long ago dispersed or ...

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The Gum 3 nebula is likely a stellar nursery about 3,600 light years away. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Search for: ...

The NGC 604 stellar nursery is an emission nebula: a cloud of ionized gas that emits its own light at various wavelengths. In this image, tendrils and clumps of emission appear in bright red, ...

A stunning image of the Orion nebula was recently released by NASA, showing the delicate structures of dust and gas that make up this stellar nursery. The structure of the nebula is formed by ...

In 2017, an international research team set out to capture a stellar nursery in the constellation Orion – a region situated 1,350 light-years away from Earth – that’s challenging to ...

Nebula NGC 1333 is a busy stellar nursery, with new stars forming among the cloud of dust and gas located 960 light-years away. Skip to main content. Menu Digital Trends ...