Less than a hundred years later, Arabic and Chinese astronomers marveled at a supernova that created the Crab Nebula. Since then, thousands more have been identified and described in surveys like ...

SNR 0519 is a supernova remnant (SNR) made up of thin, blood-red shells of gas. It is the remnant of a star that exploded as a supernova about 600 years ago. This image, shows Supernova 1987a (center) ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning images of these cosmic explosions, and we’re counting down the top 10 ...

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...

The most famous supernova seen from Earth occurred in 1054. Its remnants can still be seen as the Crab Nebula (M1) in the constellation of Taurus. A cloud of gas and dust expanding into space with ...

More massive stars than the Sun have a very different life cycle and follow the right hand path in the diagram above: \({Nebula}\rightarrow{protostar}\rightarrow{main~sequence~star}\rightarrow{red ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures extraordinary images of young stars, shedding light on star formation in the Orion Nebula.