Emission nebulae are glowing, spread-out clouds of ionized gas that shine with their own light. In this image of NGC 2313, the bright star V565 at the center lights up a silvery curtain of gas and ...

In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...

A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.

After boasting of her beauty to the Nereids or sea nymphs, she is punished rather harshly in my view by Poseidon and finds herself tethered to the north star Polaris to spin around it for perpetuity ...

The Orion Nebula — where young stars are being actively born — serves as a natural laboratory for uncovering the secrets ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located in the Orion Nebula. Credit: Space.com | imagery courtesy: ESA/Webb ...

JWST unveils LBN 483, a nebula shaped by young binary stars Stellar outflows form an intricate hourglass structure Magnetic fields influence the nebula’s evolving shape ...

Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula. A huge bipolar outflow of gas and dust, grown from the tumultuous birth of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud of a young nebula alight with star formation on the hunt for "failed star" brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are stellar ...