Hubble has previously snapped images of this ... The challenge has previously asked observers to observe M1 the Crab Nebula and C39 the Clown Nebula. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips ...

This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years away. These opaque, dark knots of gas and dust called "Bok globules" are ...

The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

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 most famous and beautiful cosmic ...

If you look closely at Hubble images such as the Pillars of Creation or the Crab Nebula (M1), you will see plenty of green ...

Since 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has beamed breathtaking ... They include M1, also known as the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant that has provided new insight into what happens when a ...

The explosion stripped off the star's outer layers, and the stellar core—now a neutron star—lies in the center of the nebula. In the 1920s, astronomers like Edwin Hubble noticed that the Crab ...

Hubble once again lifts the veil on a famous—and frequently photographed—supernova remnant: the Veil Nebula. The remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the sun that exploded about ...

A dead star takes on a ghostly green pallor in a new photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The image, released conveniently in time for Halloween, reveals the remains of a star that exploded ...

Hubble revisited the Veil Nebula for a more detailed look at its colorful hot gases. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Z. Levay About 2,000 light years from Earth are the brilliant remnants of the ...

Commonly known as the Lagoon Nebula, M8 was discovered in 1654 by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna, who, like Charles Messier, sought to catalog nebulous objects in the night sky so ...