This image by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) shows different structural details of the Crab Nebula. The observations were taken as ...

A team of scientists used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to parse the composition of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. A team of ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the evening sometime soon and ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled in stunning detail a small section of the expanding remains of a massive star that exploded about 8,000 years ago. Called the Veil Nebula, the debris is one ...

Today, researchers know that the stellar imposter was actually a powerful supernova, or exploding star, known as SN 1181. However, its origin remained a mystery until 2021, when astronomers finally ...

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

An image from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory shows a glowing hand stretching across the cosmos with its palm and fingers sculpted from the wreckage of a massive stellar explosion. When you purchase ...

Some 7,500 light-years from Earth lurks a zombie star cloaked in long tendrils of hot sulfur. Nobody knows how those tendrils formed. But astronomers now know where they’re going. New observations, ...

Since astronomers captured the bright explosion of a star on February 24, 1987, they have been searching for the squashed stellar core that should have been left behind. A new study from two NASA ...

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