Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...
First, the basics: A nebula is a giant cosmic cloud of gas and dust. The word 'nebula' comes from Latin, meaning "little mist." Before telescopes existed, astronomers considered all such faint ...
The lanes and clouds of dust in the star-forming Orion Nebula (M42) reveal a dark dimension to this familiar object.
We are working our way through some of the astronomical objects in the constellation Orion. Of all of them, my proudest ...
Dive into a celestial masterpiece with the Hubble Space Telescope's latest snapshot of the Large Magellanic Cloud, showcasing ...
Glimpse Into the Orion Nebula The Hubble Space Telescope’s latest Picture of the Week offers a stunning glimpse into the ...
The image, taken by the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, captures an emission nebula — a bright cloud of ionized gas that ...
The image captures the brightest slice of the so-called Running Chicken Nebula, a distant gas cloud toward the constellation ...