The Cat's Eye Nebula, a planetary nebula formally known ... just a few degrees Kelvin shy of absolute zero. Even through the JWST, whose active cooling lets it see things below 40 Kelvin, dark ...

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 ...

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

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

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has observed the well-known Ring ... The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix ...

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.

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 ...

High in the Chilean desert, the Extremely Large Telescope is taking shape. It promises sharper views of space than we've ever seen — but will Australian astronomers be able to use it?

In this picture, taken using the James Webb telescope's mid-infrared technology, we can see a zoomed-in portion of the Horsehead Nebula that's ... are eager to keep an eye on any possible changes ...

Tuesday, June 18, 2024: A new mosaic of the Crab Nebula by the mighty James Webb Space Telescope traces its ... of planets be visible to the naked eye in the night sky on June 3?

Scarlet plumes of hydrogen emanate from the lively cosmic portrait of the galaxy Messier 82 (M82) shown above. Also known as the cigar galaxy, it sits in the constellation Ursa Major, around 12 ...