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Astronomers have discovered a vast cloud of high-energy particles called a wind nebula around a rare ultra-magnetic...
This image of the Egg Nebula, also known as CRL-2688 and located roughly 3,000 light-years from us, was taken in red...
It may look like something from "The Lord of the Rings," but this fiery swirl is actually a planetary...
This image is an x-ray view of Eta Carinae Nebula showing bright stars taken with the High Energy Astronomy...
ESA Herschel Space Observatory found oxygen molecules in a dense patch of gas and dust adjacent to star-forming...
Nicknamed the Hand of God, this object is called a pulsar wind nebula, imaged by NASA NuSTAR. It powered by the...
NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, shows a giant nebula around Lambda Orionis, inflating Orion head to huge...
Unicorns and roses are usually the stuff of fairy tales, but a new cosmic image taken by NASA WISE mission shows the...
An infrared portrait of the Witch Head nebula from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows billowy...
NASA NEOWISE, snapped this infrared picture of near-Earth object 1998 KN3 as it zips past a cloud of dense gas and...
NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has captured a huge mosaic of two bubbling clouds in space, known as the...
Massive stars can wreak havoc on their surroundings, as can be seen in this new view of the Carina nebula from NASAs...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has captured a new, infrared view of the choppy star-making cloud called M17, or the...
An infrared photo of the Small Magellanic Cloud taken by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope is shown in this artist...
This solar system montage of the nine planets and four large moons of Jupiter in our solar system are set against a...
Image release June 22, 2010 A spectacular new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image — one of the largest ever...
This is an x-ray image of the Crab Nebula taken with the High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO)-2/Einstein...
Both of the High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO) 2/Einstein Observatory imaging devices were used to observe the...
Erosion of Carbonaceous Grains in a Simulated Solar Nebula Composite
Taken by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), this image of MyCn18, a...
Left image: The x-ray data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) has revealed a bright central star surrounded by...
The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel. The...
NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer observed the star-forming cloud NGC 281 in the constellation of Cassiopeia...
The aptly named Cocoon nebula is featured in this image from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. This cloud of...