Here’s how it works. A nebula is a giant cloud of gas and dust located in the space between stars. Nebula is Latin for "mist, vapor, fog, smoke, exhalation," but in an astronomical context ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away. ESA/Hubble & NASA, C.

Astronomers stunned as giant planet challenges what we know about space - The discovery marks the smallest-known star to host ...

These clouds are where dust and gas clump together to form knots, gradually attracting more dust and gas, growing over time to become protostars. This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space ...

The crescent-shaped cloud, dubbed “Eos” after the Greek goddess ... scientists say Eos could reshape how they study the interstellar medium, which is the gas and dust that fills the space between ...

The newly found cloud, named Eos after the Greek goddess of dawn, is one of the largest known structures in the sky and one ...

In space, there are clouds that contain gas and dust ejected from stars. Our solar system was formed 4.6 billion years ago ...

The above image is not a real photograph of a so-called "Serenity Nebula." No such nebula has been documented, and the image is in fact a digital rendering of a nebula. Social media posts ...

A team of scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer through ... The team turned the telescope toward a hot cloud of dust and gas swirling around the black hole. What they saw revealed ...

This could be because they are obscured by clouds of gas and dust that haven't yet accelerated ... for just 10 months in 1983 and was the first space telescope to peer into the infrared range.