The Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant nebula ... planetary nebulae also tend to be round or oval in shape. However, because these stars go through a phase of repeated explosions at the end of ...

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The origin of highest-energy gamma radiation in the nearby radio galaxy Centaurus A could now be localised for the first time: It extends out into its jet, a strongly bunched matter flow. This has now ...

Together, they form a V-shaped group that marks the head of Taurus ... It lies just south of the Orion Nebula (M42). Yet another pair ties for lucky 13, with first up the open cluster Collinder ...

showcases a rare phenomenon where the gravity of a massive object bends and distorts light from a distant source into a ring-like shape. This image presents a composite view of the Crab Nebula, a ...

Gradually, as the accuracy of radio telescopes improved, the vague shapes in the sky contracted ... with a discrete radio source: the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a star explosion (or supernova) ...

Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula.

The fact that there are two stars lurking at the heart of this butterfly-shaped nebula will be crucial, as we shall see. We can't see those two protostars in the JWST's Near-Infrared Camera image ...