nebula

Fans of the Horsehead and Crab nebulas, take note: There's another giant galactic animal on the scene.

Imagine what the iconic pillars of the Eagle Nebula would look like if a powerful force caused the stellar nursery to create stars at a thousand times its current rate.

Take a tour of colorful, computer-simulated nebulas — enormous cosmic clouds gas and dust — in a stunning new video.

Ninety-three shining Messier objects have been imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope and are now compiled into a gallery that shows their glittering, shining shapes in stunning detail.

Skywatchers may wonder how nebulas get their marvelous colors and shapes, and a team of astronomers used the Very Large Telescope to find out.

A new enormous blob, called a Lyman-alpha nebula, is lit by a mysterious source.

A new backyard telescope accumulates and intensifies light, bringing the shapes and colors of cosmic objects into clearer view for amateur astronomers, the instrument's makers say.