Astrophotographer Terry Hancock has captured a dramatic view of the star-forming region IC 1396 — also known as the ...

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A glowing nebula located approximately 2,700 light-years from Earth resembles a guitar with a bright pulsar at the tip of the headstock, earning the nickname "flame-throwing guitar." When you purchase ...

Fly about 2,600 light-years to Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Cygnus loop nebula. See images from 2001 and 2020.

The Cat's Eye Nebula, officially known as NGC 6543, is not only among the most intricate planetary nebulae observed in space, ...

The Helix Nebula, NGC 7293, is not only one of the most interesting and beautiful planetary nebulae; it is also one of the closest nebulae to Earth, at a distance of only 710 light years (219 pc) away ...

NASA’s space telescopes tuned into an epic cosmic rock show, capturing new images of a space guitar that’s billowing in the wake of an erratic neutron star as it releases a flame-like streak across ...

NASA, Donald Walter/South Carolina State University/Paul Scowen/ Brian Moore/Arizona State University A glimpse up at the night sky will reveal a seemingly endless landscape of twinkling stars, but ...

In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Hubble once again lifts the veil on a famous — and frequently photographed — supernova remnant: the Veil Nebula. ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sankrit One of the ...

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 light ...

This gallery shows four planetary nebulas from the first systematic survey of such objects in the solar neighborhood made with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The planetary nebulas shown here are ...