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Researchers suspect that Earth's core holds a vast reservoir of the rare gas, helium-3.

Rare primordial gas may be leaking out of Earth's core

By Laura Geggel published

A vast reservoir of the rare gas helium-3 may be hanging out in Earth's metallic core.

Earth
Running Man nebula

Newborn star (unsuccessfully) plays 'hide-and-seek' in gas cloud

By Elizabeth Howell published

A big gas jet helped Hubble spot the youngster.

Stars
Deep view of the Orion Nebula, imaged from multiple exposures using the HAWK-I infrared camera on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile.

Orion Nebula: Facts about Earth’s nearest stellar nursery

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

Reference The Orion Nebula (Messier 42) is the nearest star-forming region to Earth, about 1,350 light-years away. It is located in the Orion Constellation, just below Orion's Belt.

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The Crab Nebula sounds oddly beautiful.

This is what a supernova sounds like, according to NASA

By Brandon Specktor published

NASA's new data sonification project turns the universe's most extreme phenomena into sounds.

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Diagram showing our solar system (sizes and distances not to scale).

How did the solar system form?

By Paul Sutter published

The formation of the solar system is a challenging puzzle for modern astronomy and a terrific tale of extreme forces operating over immense timescales. Let's dig in.

Solar System
A new image taken by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile shows a butterfly-like nebula in stunning detail.

'Butterfly' nebula glides across a starry sky in beautiful new video

By Elizabeth Howell published

A mesmerizing new image shows a "space butterfly" appearing to soar against a background of stars.

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nebula comic

Guardians of the Galaxy's Nebula Goes Solo in February

By Newsarama Staff published

Guardians of the Galaxy's Nebula is getting her own solo limited series next year.

Space Books
Outflows of radiation and particles from a massive O-type star carved deep gouges in this nebula, making the cloud of gas and dust look like a spooky jack-o'-lantern.

It's Halloween! NASA Space Telescope Spots a Ghostly Cosmic Jack-O'Lantern

By Samantha Mathewson published

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted a cosmic jack-o'-lantern.

Space Exploration
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) captured this unprecedented image of two circumstellar disks, in which baby stars are growing, feeding with material from their surrounding birth disk.

Twin Baby Stars Caught Feeding from Their Mother, a Twisted 'Pretzel' of Interstellar Dust

By Mindy Weisberger published

Twin baby stars snuggle inside a "pretzel" of glowing gas and dust in an image captured by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope.

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An image captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope of two regions known as Cepheus C (left) and Cepheus B (right). The data behind the image was collected a decade ago, but the image itself was just released as NASA looks ahead to the end of the telescope's mission.

With End in Sight, Spitzer Space Telescope Releases Glorious Nebula Images

By Meghan Bartels published

NASA has released a stunning pair of images taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope, an instrument the agency will be shutting down on Jan. 30, 2020.

Astrophotography
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