Commonly known as the Lagoon Nebula, M8 was discovered in 1654 by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna, who, like Charles Messier, sought to catalog nebulous objects in the night sky so ...
Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.
As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous ...
The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...
The Flame Nebula, located 1,400 light-years from Earth, is a region where many stars are forming and is less than a million ...
Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of a nearby ...
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...