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

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken us farther into space than ever before — to objects over 13 billion light-years away.

NASA affectionately calls it a “Space Butterfly,” but in reality it’s a pair of massive gas clouds. Its official name is Westerhout 40 (W40), and it’s a nebula. W40 and nebulas like it are ...

They are surrounded by a butterfly-shaped gas formation. These stars feed on nearby gas but also eject excess material. This process creates bursts of outflows that shape the nebula’s striking ...

Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI A huge bipolar outflow ... The fact that there are two stars lurking at the heart of this butterfly-shaped nebula will be crucial, as we shall see.

NGC 6302, the Butterfly Nebula, is not actually a gigantic space bug, fear not. Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Kastner (RIT) An article accompanying the release of the new Hubble images notes that ...

Lagoon Nebula: Located in in the Sagittarius, this cosmic cloud displays swirling pinks and blues from young stars. It is about 4,000 light-years away from us. In this false-color image ...

These were from the central white dwarf of the Helix Nebula. The origin was unknown for years. Recent observations have changed the perspective. Scientists used images from the Hubble and NASA's ...