A cloud of gas expelled by a dying star has done something rare in nature: it cooled below the background temperature of deep ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The distinctive appearance of IC 443's shell-like structure has led to it being nicknamed the "Jellyfish Nebula," owing to its ...

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NASA’s Hubble and James Webb telescopes reveal 10 stunning red and infrared views of nebulae, supernova remnants, ...

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An international team has made use of the power of the HAWK-I infrared instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) to produce the deepest and most comprehensive view of the Orion Nebula to date.

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The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble’s longest-running optical camera, ...