What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...
This towering structure in the Eagle Nebula is a 9.5 light-year-high column of gas and dust from a stellar nursery. This image shows N90, where bright young stars carve a cavity, with distant galaxies ...
The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth’s point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...
The Cat's Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543, is a planetary nebula in the Draco constellation that's about 3,262 light years away from Earth. NASA captured this stunning image of a runway star Zeta ...
The Red Spider Nebula: Huge waves are sculpted in this two-lobed nebula some 3000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. The Spirograph Nebula: Glowing like a multi-faceted jewel ...
A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows two protostars in the Orion Nebula, a diffuse nebula located approximately 1,350 light-years away in the constellation of Orion. The Orion ...