The shimmering colours visible in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image show off the remarkable complexity of the Twin Jet Nebula. The new image highlights the nebula’s shells and its knots of ...

The twin telescopes of the Gemini Observatory mark 25 years of discovery as students name distant nebula Ua ʻŌhiʻa Lan.

At the centre of a mysterious nebula, astronomers have discovered two stars locked in such a tight orbit that they will eventually merge and explode. Both stars are white dwarfs - the heaviest such ...

One object in the night sky that is sure to turn on anyone to the hobby of stargazing is the great Orion Nebula, a gargantuan stellar factory. I guarantee you’ll be wowed when you train a telescope on ...

The word “awesome” has become a staple of our vocabulary, and that’s great — or should I say awesome? Forgive me if I sound like a curmudgeon, but the downside is that awesome has been watered down.

Hubble Telescope image of the Horsehead Nebula. Credit: T.A.Rector (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) & Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA ...

The Twin Jet Nebula, or PN M2-9, is a striking example of a bipolar planetary nebula. Bipolar planetary nebulae are formed when the central object is not a single star, but a binary system, Studies ...