The Eagle Nebula is 6500 light-years away in the constellation of Serpens. It contains a young hot star cluster, NGC 6611, visible with modest back-garden telescopes, that is sculpting and ...

The Crab nebula’s magnetic field has been mapped in more detail than ever before. This churning mass of hot gas and dust is one of the best-studied cosmic objects, but this new map shows it is even ...

NASA: A star’s spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054 A.D. Now, almost a thousand years later, a super dense object — called a neutron star — left ...

Planetary nebulae are the final butterfly-like state that heralds the end of a Sun-like star’s energy-generating life. Lasting no more than a few tens of thousands of years, planetary nebulae help ...