Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have imaged a giant molecular cloud being shredded by howling stellar winds and searing radiation, exposing a group of towering dust pillars harboring ...

The Gemini South telescope in Chile captured this stunning view of NGC 6302, highlighting the nebula’s intricate structure ...

As part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency (ESA) is sharing a new image series revisiting stunning, previously released Hubble targets with the addition of the ...

Astronomers have revealed a cosmic butterfly to mark 25 years of a powerful space telescope. Students voted for the Gemini ...

A breathtaking new image of the famous Eagle Nebula captures a towering pillar of gas and dust sculpted by intense stellar radiation. The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, is located about 6,500 ...

The Webb Space Telescope has just imaged what might be its most iconic target yet: the Pillars of Creation, a monumental arm of the Eagle Nebula. The pillars are so-named for their magnitude. They are ...

NASA released a stunning image of the Eagle Nebula's Pillars of Creation this week. The newly revisited picture, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the pillars in infrared light. That type of ...

A stunning image of a distant nebula has been taken using the Very Large Telescope. The Cone Nebula, located 2,700 light-years away in the constellation of Monoceros (the Unicorn), is huge in size at ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A vast stellar nursery in the Eagle Nebula is seen as a towering spire of gas and dust through ...

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have imaged a giant molecular cloud being shredded by howling stellar winds and searing radiation, exposing a group of towering dust pillars harboring ...