The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

A breathtaking new image of the famous Eagle Nebula captures a towering pillar of gas and dust sculpted by intense stellar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but ...

The interstellar plasma is turbulent and scatters pulsar radio waves slightly away from a direct, straight line path. The ...

Named Kohoutek 4-55, the nebula was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Planetary nebulae like Kohoutek 4-55 are the ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows thousands of glittering galaxies that it spied by peering through ...

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The world's most famous telescope is celebrating in style with new views of Mars, nebulas and a galaxy that reminds us of home.

When the planet finally fell in toward the star, it splashed away layers of gas from the star’s outer atmosphere, and this gas gradually cooled into cold dust which now sits as a cloud around the star ...