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Somewhere deep in space, a nebula explodes like a giant butterfly made up of dust and stars. While it may seem like a lovely sight, it is holding a dramatic stellar death that is ejecting an envelope ...
The above image is not a real photograph of a so-called "Serenity Nebula." No such nebula has been documented, and the image is in fact a digital rendering of a nebula. Social media posts featuring ...
For more than 30 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has been our eye on the universe’s stunning nebulae. Simply put, a nebula is a giant cloud of dust and gas in space. Sometimes they appear when a ...
Stunning ‘cosmic butterfly’ captured on telescope after schoolchildren chose target - The National Science Foundation’s ...
The claim: A new photo from the Hubble telescope may be Heaven's Gate. An image circulating online of pillars of light ascending from the cosmos has some speculating Heaven’s Gate has been found.
The decades-long mystery of a never-ending explosion of X-rays around the remains of a dead star may have finally been solved. The radiation probably originates from the scorching-hot wreckage left ...
As 'Alien: Earth' hits screens, the night sky delivers a cameo from the franchise's iconic villain. When I aimed my Vaonis Vespera Pro smart telescope at the Eastern Veil Nebula, the last thing I ...