The evocative scene captures the swirling gas of the nebula Sh2-132, known as the Lion Nebula, located around 10,000 ...

Snapped last month by the Gemini South telescope, the aptly named Butterfly Nebula is 2,500 to 3,800 light-years away in the ...

ASTRONOMERS have spotted a stunning cosmic butterfly with glowing “wings” deep in space. The mind-blowing display is actually ...

A striking deep-space image of the Lion Nebula shows massive stars shaping glowing gas clouds. Captured over 35 hours, it ...

The world's largest telescope captured a deep-space nebula — an interstellar cloud of gas and dust that can produce new stars — in stunning detail, providing the first close-up view to date of the ...

NGC 6302, more romantically known as the Butterfly Nebula, was chosen by Chilean schoolchildren as the latest subject for ...

Nestled some 2,500 light-years away in the Ring Nebula, a star is in the last throes of its life. And as it dances with a companion star, at probably the same distance apart as Earth is to Pluto, the ...

The United States Postal Service (USPS) is granting priority status to the work of the James Webb Space Telescope. As announced on Monday (Oct. 23), the USPS plans to release two 2024 Priority Mail ...

This image shows Euclid's capability to explore both our cosmic neighborhood and the deep universe beyond. A vast, ...

Photoshop tutorial showing a quick, effective way to make a cool, planetary nebula in deep space and a fiery explosion complete with a planetary inferno.