An ominous-looking nebula named NGC 246 lurks in the constellation Cetus about 1,600 light-years away from Earth. It is ...

Spend three minutes getting lost in space. A video released by NASA this week shows the well-known Orion Nebula in a new way. The 3D visualization of the nebula allows the viewer to get a bird's eye ...

The Butterfly Nebula exhibits the classic hourglass shape of many planetary nebulas… The Hubble Space Telescope has caught the most detailed view of the Crab Nebula in one of the largest images ever ...

A little over 2000 light years away, toward the constellation of Cepheus, is a place where stars are being born. It’s a nebula, a gas cloud, and it’s called IC 1396. It’s monstrous, well over a ...

It is the most iconic image ever taken by Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope. The ‘Pillars of Creation’ showing the Eagle Nebula, taken in 1995, revealed never-before-seen detail of the light from a ...

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The universe is a slow-changing place. While it's mostly true that the heavens and the deep-sky objects in it will look largely the same across an average human lifetime, there are dramatic examples ...