This butterfly shaped nebula is the perfect target for the James Webb Space Telescope to learn more about star formation.

The Tarantula Nebula ... and wind cloud are red and orange veins, and pockets of bright white light. The pockets of white light represent clusters of young stars. One cluster at the heart of ...

A brilliant cloud of gas shines beautifully 163,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy not that far from the Milky Way. The gas of the nebula, named LHA 120-N55, is ...

A sparkling stellar nursery appears reminiscent of the early universe in new images from the ... and dust around in the nebula, creating the intricate features and cloud-like carvings observed ...

Well, stars grow by accreting material from their immediate environs of a gravitationally collapsed cloud of molecular ... lurking at the heart of this butterfly-shaped nebula will be crucial ...