Stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up throughout August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions and even a visible nebula. Yes, a formation known as the "dumbbell nebula" – ...

New Hubble images of the Egg Nebula in the constellation Cygnus brings us the clearest look at the first, youngest, and ...

The image Hubble captured was of the Egg Nebula, in the constellation Cygnus, about 1,000 light-years away, according to NASA.

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Hubble captures a dying star cracking open the dazzling, dust-filled Egg Nebula in a rare cosmic transformation.

NASA shared a Valentine’s Day image of a heart-shaped nebula showing newborn stars forming within glowing gas and cosmic dust ...

The stunning image captures a star's dying moments wrapped in dust, light, and a cosmic conundrum still waiting to be solved.

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In 1993, when the Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the Orion nebula for the first time, its images provided a substantial boost for the argument that stars with planetary systems are commonplace in the ...

Nebulae are some of the most beautiful structures to be found in space: vast clouds of dust and gas that are illuminated by light from nearby stars. These regions are often busy sites of star ...