The ORION Nebula (M42) is a nebula that is faintly visible in the night sky in the constellation Orion. By combining visible and infrared images of the ORION Nebula taken by telescopes, one can ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) captured the star as it reaches the end of its life.

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In 1993, when the Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the Orion nebula for the first time, its images provided a substantial boost for the argument that stars with planetary systems are commonplace in the ...

Helix Nebula: A planetary nebula often called the "Eye of God," located 650 light-years away. Crab Nebula: A highly detailed image of this supernova remnant, located 6,500 light-years away. Carina ...

Astronomers have released a new image of the Ring Nebula revealing features in the outer regions of the ring. The new observations provide a glimpse of what the sun might look like at the end of its ...

This awe-inspiring image captures the end stages of a distant star's life — and offers a sneak peak of what will happen to our own sun in some 5 billion years. It was taken by NASA's James Webb Space ...

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