Inside the bright but unassumingly named nebula Gum 55 lies a dark nebula - a rift of dust grains that absorb visible light - ...

This image of the Milky Way galaxy was captured by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, in collaboration with NASA. This image of the Milky Way, created by NASA ...

The nebula constitutes a clump of cloud in a larger complex known as Gum 55, a large region of glowing nebulosity in the ...

NASA released a stunning Hubble image of the Omega Nebula, or M17, a star-forming region in the Milky Way, to share Diwali ...

The Red Spider Nebula is a planetary nebula situated near the center of the Milky Way, in the northwest region of the constellation Sagittarius. This fiery planetary nebula hosts one of the hottest ...

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals this spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the ...

The European Southern Observatory captured a Halloween-themed image of the Dark Wolf Nebula, a hauntingly dense cloud of ...

The VLT Survey Telescope captured a spooktacular image of a nebula that looks like a dark wolf in the sky just in time for ...

Clearly, the Andromeda Nebula was a system of stars quite separate from the Milky Way, and in many ways comparable to it. From this simple observation, soon repeated for other starry nebulae ...

James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's latest and most advanced space observatory, has continued to capture breathtaking images ...

Pismis 24 is a small open star cluster located in the core of the NGC 6357 emission nebula, which is about 8,000 light-years ...

A minority view, however, held that the Milky Way was only one "island" of stars, gas, and dust, and that there were other such islands beyond. An important clue to which perspective was right seemed ...