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Among the planetary nebulae in the high northern heavens, M97, the Owl Nebula, is the most famous. Pierre Méchain discovered it on Feb. 16, 1781, about 2.5° southeast of Merak (Beta [β] Ursae Majoris) ...
The glowing object in this Hubble Space Telescope image is an elliptical galaxy called NGC 3923. It is located over 90 million light-years away in the constellation of Hydra. NGC 3923 is an example of ...
MR. G. W. WALKER tells me that he has sent to NATURE his interesting problem of the mutual attraction between two uniform concentric hemispherical shells, bounded by a common diametral plane. The ...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured in intricate detail the beautiful petal-like shells of galaxy PGC 6240, set against a sky full of distant background galaxies. This cosmic bloom is of ...
A young star cluster surrounded by three concentric bubbles was recently found near the M33 galaxy, revealing a cosmic splendor that could be compared to Russian matryoshka nesting dolls. The ...
Life as we know it is based on carbon chemistry, and now the James Webb Space Telescope may have shown where much of that ...
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