Running Chicken Nebula is a stellar nursery located in the constellation Centaurus. See a 3D animation created from VLT Survey imagery of these stunning regions of space. Credit: Space.com | animation ...

The Blue Ring Nebula is invisible to the human eye, but telescopes can measure the ultraviolet light, which is shown here in blue. NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Seibert (Carnegie Institution for Science)/K.

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 ...

The widely photographed and heavily studied Orion Nebula is nearly 300 light-years closer to Earth than previously thought, according to a new study. The finding, detailed in the Oct. 10 issue of ...

It took 16 long years, but astronomers have finally solved the puzzle of the mysterious Blue Ring Nebula, according to a new paper published in Nature. First spotted in 2004, the star with an unusual ...