April may be known for its rain showers -- but when the clouds part, nighttime skygazers can enjoy meteor showers and other ...

Charles Messier was an 18th century comet hunter who compiled a list of nebulae and star clusters – objects that could be mistaken for comets in a small telescope. His ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

Binoculars never get enough credit when it comes to stargazing. They don’t have as much light-gathering ability and ...

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 ...

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Webb's image of the Flame Nebula NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Michael Meyer (University of Michigan), Matthew De Furio (UT Austin), Massimo Robberto (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Our universe is host to ...

Bok globules may form stars, or may eventually dissipate. Little Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Messier 76, M76, or NGC 650/651) located 3,400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The James Webb Space Telescope has observed mid-infrared rings in the planetary nebula NGC 1514, revealing turbulent yet cohesive structures. These rings ...

Stunning new imagery and other data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal new details about a pair of enigmatic infrared ring structures accompanying a distant planetary nebula. The new ...

Charles Messier later wrote in Connaissance des temps 1800/1801: “What prompted me to tackle the catalog was the nebula I discovered above the southern horn of the Bull on September 12 ...