A new data release more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave candidate events—and reveals unexpected complexities of merging black holes ...

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest image ever taken of the Egg Nebula, a structure roughly 1,000 light-years from Earth where a dying star is shedding its outer layers in dramatic ...

For the first time, astronomers have discovered dry ice (carbon dioxide ice) in a planetary nebula, shedding new light on the ...

A mysterious bow shock around the white dwarf RXJ0528+2838 is challenging astronomers’ understanding of how dead stars ...

Analysis shows that the gas-to-ice ratio in the Butterfly Nebula differs significantly from ratios found in younger, ...

An international team of astronomers has employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a complex planetary nebula known as NGC 6302. The observations, detailed in a paper published Feb. 25 ...

Webb has captured the haunting “Exposed Cranium” nebula—an otherworldly cloud shaped by a dying star that looks remarkably like a brain inside a skull.

Satellite views and space telescopes allow scientists to see amazing wonders, such as sand seas in the Namib Desert, "spiderweb" formations on Mars, and even distant nebulae. Sometimes, though, a ...

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An 8th-grade astrophotographer from Apple Valley captured a stunning image of the Bubble Nebula, 7,000 light-years away.

Under the leadership of Professor Shmuel Bialy, the team used observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to measure infrared radiation from cosmic rays that had penetrated the giant, cold and ...