The latest image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a glimpse of an elegant, delicate portion of a huge round nebula which was formed when a star 20 times the mass of our sun exploded ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has made some remarkable discoveries in its 30 years in space, including a flapping "bat shadow," summertime on Saturn and that the first stars and galaxies formed earlier ...

NASA has shared a new and very cool photograph via its Instagram page. The image looks almost as if it was created using Photoshop, showing an undulating orange ribbon across space. NASA says the ...

A sounding rocket toting a special imaging and spectroscopy instrument will take a brief trip to space Sunday night to try and capture as much data as it can on a long-admired supernova remnant in the ...

Using cutting-edge theoretical models and data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have transformed astronomical observations into detailed 3D models of cosmic objects — models that ...

Some of the most dramatic events in the universe are the deaths of massive stars. When stars far larger than our sun run out of fuel and explode in huge supernovas, these events not only let out huge ...

J-P Metsavainio's mosaic captures a portion of the Milky Way. J-P Metsavainio The photographer J-P Metsavainio captured images of the Milky Way for 12 years to create a mosaic. It shows 20 million ...

(Phys.org) —These delicate wisps of gas make up an object known as SNR B0519-69.0, or SNR 0519 for short. The thin, blood-red shells are actually the remnants from when an unstable progenitor star ...

The star went boom about 20,000 years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There's no better way to understand the life cycle of ...

"Astro" Bob King is a freelance writer for the News Tribune. Read more of his work at astrobob.areavoices.com. The Ursa Major Arc is about 600 light years away and encircles the Big Dipper (part of ...