Just in time for Christmas, a vast star-forming region shaped like a Christmas tree is lighting up space 2,700 light-years from Earth.

The NGC 2264 is a vast stellar complex located in the Monoceros constellation, about 2,600 light-years away. It includes two ...

This Christmas, astronomers are highlighting a spectacular region of space that looks remarkably like a glowing holiday tree.

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we’d been awaiting for five long years – an infrared photo of two dying stars we’d requested from ...

The Crab Nebula never fails to disappoint—and that’s particularly true in this image, a view by the Herschel Space Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope of ...

Hubble gets a look under the shell of the Crab Nebula and catches sight of the dramatic remains of a supernova. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET.

As the old saying goes: red sky at night, shepherd’s delight – or astronomer’s delight, in the case of this swirling cloud of glowing red hydrogen 7300 light years away from Earth. This nebula ...

The Lagoon Nebula (M8), located approximately 4,100 light-years away in Sagittarius, is visible to the naked eye under dark skies. Giovanni Battista Hodierna first documented the nebula in 1654, ...

Dust clouds in the luminous Lagoon Nebula swirl in harsh stellar winds in this new image from Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. The nebula's tranquil name contrasts starkly with the violent ...