Commonly known as the Lagoon Nebula, M8 was discovered in 1654 by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna, who, like Charles Messier, sought to catalog nebulous objects in the night sky so ...

In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of ...

The Eagle Nebula is a beautiful cloud of gas and dust in space, where new stars are born. NASA has captured some stunning and rare images of this nebula, showing its glowing colors and mysterious ...

Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula. A huge bipolar outflow of gas and dust, grown from the tumultuous birth of ...

To celebrate this birthday, Hubble scientists have shared a new image showing the striking Little Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 76, which is located 3,400 light-years away. The nebula ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recorded breath-taking new images of the iconic Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57. The images, released today by an international team of astronomers ...

Look for the Orion constellation and the Orion Nebula (Messier 42)—our solar system came from that direction." The increased dust from this galactic encounter could have had several effects.

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the Eagle Nebula. For example, this gorgeous 2014 Hubble composite of the ...

Read Showing a large portion of M66, this Hubble photo is a composite of images obtained at visible and infrared wavelengths. The images ...