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

This glowing emerald nebula seen by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is reminiscent of the glowing ring wielded by the superhero Green Lantern. This view shows part of the very active star-forming ...

Two aging stars in the binary system AFGL 4106 sculpt a glowing, egg-shaped nebula as they approach the end of their lives.

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

Recent images of the Horsehead Nebula are the sharpest infrared images ever, per the agency NASA Space aficionados are raving about the latest images released of a special horse-shaped nebula.

New images taken by NASA’s Webb Space Telescope show the sharpest images yet of a portion of a horse-shaped nebula which was discovered more than a century ago. A nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in ...

Stunning cosmic clouds and stars are captured in this image of Melotte 15 showing the newborn star cluster in the core of the so-called Heart nebula. Astrophotographer Jaspal Chadha of London took ...

NASA’s Webb Telescope captures the Exposed Cranium Nebula in infrared. The dying star reveals ghostly skull-like structures.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured detailed infrared images of PMR 1, nicknamed the “Exposed Cranium.” Located about ...

Arrayed with a simple triangular outline above S Monocerotis, the stars of NGC 2264 are popularly known as the Christmas Tree star cluster. Image Credit & Copyright ...

Since the discovery of planetary nebulae in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that these expanding shells of glowing gas expelled by low-intermediate mass stars late in their lives can come in ...

A color rendition of NGC 6302, the Butterfly Nebula, created from black-and-white exposures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2019 and 2020. In the violet-colored regions, strong stellar winds ...