A new picture shows a nebula 2,500 light-years away in spectacular detail. The Cone Nebula was snapped by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. This is one of the largest ...

The world's largest telescope captured a deep-space nebula — an interstellar cloud of gas and dust that can produce new stars — in stunning detail, providing the first close-up view to date of the ...

Scanning the constellation Cepheus the King leads us to one of the sky's largest emission nebulae - IC 1396. It measures a whopping 2.8° by 2.3°. But this region also contains dark nebulae and a ...

A close-up of the "mane" of the Horsehead Nebula, located some 1,300 light-years from Earth. This view was captured by the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument. NASA, ESA, CSA, K.