Astronomers nicknamed the structure around PSR B2224+65 the Guitar Nebula because of its rockin' shape. X-ray: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./M. de Vries et al.; Optical: (Hubble) NASA/ESA/STScI and ...
Located 7,100 light-years from Earth, the Bubble Nebula spans an impressive 7 light-years, with its intense central star being 45 times more massive than our Sun! A planetary nebula located 3,000 ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recorded breath-taking new images of the iconic Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57. The images, released today by an international team of astronomers ...
Nebulas are mostly made up of dust, hydrogen, helium, and ionised gases. There are four types of nebulae: planetary nebulas, supernova remnants, dark nebulas, and emission nebulas.
The giant red nebula (NGC 2014) and its smaller blue neighbor (NGC 2020) are part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, located 163,000 ...