What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

Visible to the naked eye under dark skies, the Orion Nebula has been studied throughout human history, but the JWST images ...

NASA’s latest flagship spaceborne observatory, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is no ... known as the Southern Ring Nebula. It was one of the earliest sets released.

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some ...

NDG-9422, resides a staggering 12.9 billion light-years away, offering us a glimpse into the universe when it was merely 900 ...

Both are invisible to the human eye, so these images use filters ... material from other stars. The Carina Nebula from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) with an added X-ray layer by NASA ...

Also called the "Eight-Burst nebula" for its figure ... too distant to be seen with the naked eye from Earth. In one of its most impressive feats yet, JWST looked back to the dawn of the cosmos ...

the Orion Nebula, M42, is visible to the naked eye as a faint smudge Jupiter-sized "planets" free-floating in space, unconnected to any star, have been spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope ...

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A telescope on a Chilean mountain has just imaged a spectacular nebula in the night sky ... light and infrared light. Like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), VISTA is sensitive to different ...