At first glance, the Butterfly Nebula looks like a glowing insect pinned against the backdrop of space. Officially known as ...

The cosmic butterfly has also produced plenty of PAHs – large hydrocarbon molecules that could play a key early role in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an extraordinary view of star birth in the Pismis 24 cluster, revealing its ...

Scientists say the findings at the core of the Butterfly Nebula, unknown since the discovery of the whole phenomena in the ...

Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data ...

At first glance, the Butterfly Nebula looks like a glowing insect pinned against the backdrop of space. Officially known as NGC 6302, it sits about 3,400 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius ...

The Pillow Planetary Nebula, also known as NGC 7027 or the Flying Carpet Nebula, is one of the most unusual planetary nebulae ...

Planetary nebulae, formed when red giant stars exhaust their fuel, can sometimes be spectacular (see the Hourglass Nebula) ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the most detailed view yet of the Butterfly Nebula known as NGC 6302. The ...

Massive stars in the Lobster Nebula carve dramatic shapes into cosmic dust while thousands of glittering young stars emerge ...