The Milky Way's plane cuts through the northwestern corner of Ara the Altar, blessing this southern constellation with a ...

A haunting dark nebula captured recently in the night sky over Texas has drawn attention for its uncanny resemblance to a ...

A colossal bar of iron hidden inside the Ring Nebula may be the ghostly remains of a planet destroyed by a dying star.

A massive cloud of dust and glowing gases speckled with newborn stars in the shape of a seagull shines in a stunning image captured by a telescope in Chile. A new photo from the European Southern ...

New instrument on William Herschel Telescope spots previously unknown strip of ionised iron atoms at the heart of Ring Nebula ...

A new telescope image reveals a distant cosmic gas cloud that looks like a curious chicken with his head tilted in wonder of the universe. The image, taken by the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

The Cocoon Nebula, an emission nebula spanning 12 arcminutes (1/5 degree) in the constellation Cygnus, is approximately 4,000 light-years distant and possesses a diameter of 15 light-years. This ...

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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 ...