The Carina Nebula sits roughly 7,500 light-years from Earth. (Image credit: ESO/G. Hüdepohl) Seeing that far into space can be tricky, even when gazing at one of our galaxy's brightest objects ...

An image from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory shows a glowing hand stretching across the cosmos with its palm and fingers ...

In a dazzling new photo, the James Webb Space Telescope zooms in on the Butterfly Nebula — the dying gasps of one of the ...

At about 1,700 years old, MSH 15-52, sometimes called the "cosmic hand" or " hand of God " for its unusual shape, is one of ...

According to this theory, the shock wave would have injected material from the exploding star into the solar nebula. Scientists have previously detected potential evidence of this pollution in ...

A new study has revealed that a supernova shock wave traveling through the Cassiopeia A nebula is not expanding as evenly as it should be.

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According to NASA, nebulas are giant clouds of dust and gases in space. They form from an explosion of a dying star or where ...

Focusing their cameras on the other side of our Milky Way, astronomers have found an amazing sight: a giant nebula formed by the shockwaves generated by exploding young stars. The nebula, located ...

Or the nebula has collided with something.” The researchers date suggest that a collision is most likely, probably with a massive shell of gas particles.

Eta Carinae has been exploding for nearly 200 years, and now we're firing lasers at it.