Astronomers have unveiled an image of a giant cloud of space gas and dust that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette ...

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...

This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where the ...

Euclid has two instruments: its visible light camera, VIS, and its near-infrared light camera, NISP. NISP allows Euclid to ...

They used the image to count the stars in the ring ... confirmed the existence of a dark, absorbing nebula that appeared to lie some 1,500 light-years distant. However, they did not toss out ...

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 ...

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 ...

ESA's Euclid mission is exploring the "dark universe." The space telescope's latest images offer fascinating new insights.

Webb's image of the Flame Nebula NASA, ESA, CSA ... view taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Much of the dark, dense gas and dust, as well as the surrounding white clouds within the ...

(Beverly Lynds was an astronomer who catalogued both bright nebulas – BN – and dark nebulas ... of this image — but if we could imagine zooming in right to the heart of the nebula ...