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'Project Hail Mary' end credits showcase stunning nebula photos captured over 400 hours by a single astrophotographer — here's the inside story

By Anthony Wood Published

It started with an Instagram message, and ended on the silver screen.

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Swirls of red and orange gas fill a deep space starry background

Astrophotographer captures the 'Flaming Star Nebula' ablaze in deep-space (photo)

By Anthony Wood Published

Ionized clouds give the impression of flames surrounding the star AE Aurigae.

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The swirling mass of interstellar dust and gas that forms the Orion Nebula is pictured glowing against the blackness of space. A collection of particularly bright stars are visible in the center of the nebula, surrounded by a radiation-sculpted cavity.

This stunning Orion Nebula photo will make you want to grab a telescope this week

By Anthony Wood Published

The Orion Nebula is the closest large star-forming region, located within the Milky Way just 1,500 light-years from Earth.

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A nebula. The top-left is dense with layers of fluffy pink and greenish clouds. Long strands of green clouds stretch out from here; a faint layer of translucent blue dust combines with them to create a three-dimensional scene. A sparse network of dark dust clouds in the foreground adds reddish-black patches atop the nebula. Blue-white and orange stars, from our galaxy and beyond, are spread amongst the clouds.

Nebula knowledge: Do you know these stunning space structures?

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry Published

Test your cosmic eye: can you match these dazzling nebula images to their names?

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A deep space nebula scene showing a bubble-like shell of cosmic dust and gas shining red and blue against a black sky peppered with bright stars.

Cosmic 'brain' ponders the cosmos in colorful new photo of the Medulla Nebula

By Anthony Wood Published

Light from the ancient supernova remnant was captured over the course of 50 hours in September 2025.

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A deep space scene in which swirling brown clouds of molecular dusk appear to form the hairy outline of a baboon's face, while blue emission nebulas appear like eyes in the middle of the image, and a knot of dense material forms a dark mouth to the lower left. A globular star cluster is visible shining to the upper right of the shot.

Cosmic baboon rampages through deep space in gorgeous new nebula photo

By Anthony Wood Published

We're not the only ones who see a baboon in this nebula photo, right?

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a wispy nebula colored red, blue, orange and pink against a black background speckled with stars.

Nebula: Definition, location and variants

By Andrew May Last updated

Reference Among the most spectacular sights in the sky, nebula come in a range of different types.

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Two-Face Nebula Is Half Light, Half Dark

Two-Face Nebula Is Half Light, Half Dark

By Clara Moskowitz Published

Astronomers have captured a new photo of a yin-yang-like nebula that appears dark on one side and bright on the other.

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