The soft light from a nebula may also come from the ambient radiation released by the nebular cloud itself. This type of ...

Hubble Telescope image of the Horsehead Nebula. (Credit: T.A.Rector (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) & Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA)) ...

This shining disk of a spiral galaxy sits approximately 25 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Sculptor. NGC 2014 is a red emission nebula surrounding an open cluster of stars ...

Everybody Loves a Cluster with a Nebula This is NGC 2264, the Cone Nebula, and the Christmas Tree Cluster. The bright stars ...

Explore the breathtaking beauty of the cosmos with seven incredible images of star clusters and galaxies captured by NASA.

Explore the breathtaking beauty of the cosmos with these seven rare images of star clusters, captured by NASA's Hubble Space ...

We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky." One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a bygone ...

With February’s winter nights regularly dropping below freezing, it’s tempting to take the easy way out and just stay inside.