Bubble Nebula: Spanning 7 light-years across, and about one-and-a-half times the distance from our sun to its nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, the Bubble Nebula resides 7,100 light-years ...

This image presents a composite view of the Crab Nebula, a famous supernova remnant within the Milky Way galaxy. This image, captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope using its NIRCam ...

Staelin and Reifenstein recently reported 1 the discovery of two pulsed radio sources near the Crab nebula, which is the remnant of the supernova observed by the Chinese in AD 1054. Pulses from ...

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. This Hubble ...

Crab Nebula: Located 6,500 light-years away from Earh, it is the highest-resolution image ever taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Thanks For Reading!

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The new X-ray image of the Tarantula Nebula includes the data from a large Chandra program that involved about 23 days of observing time, greatly exceeding the 1.3 days of observing that Chandra ...

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As the month of February closes out, Oscars weekend is still bringing a new slate of films to counter-program Hollywood’s biggest night. Starting with the weekend’s wide releases, survival ...

The Carina Nebula is a massive star-forming region, home to massive stars, intense radiation, and vibrant cosmic gas clouds.

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