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 ...

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

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) ...

The ring-shaped clouds around the nebula RCW 120 were detected by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in this composite image. The Black Eye Galaxy is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy 17 million ...

The James Webb Space Telescope provides astonishing details about the The Pillars of Creation, celestial structures in the ...

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 ...

Before it was moulded into a neat set of planets, every scrap of matter in the solar system was part of a gigantic nebula - a floating interstellar cloud. This giant cloud was made up of dust, ...

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