Last Updated: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 14:52
A team of astrophysicists has found evidence which strongly supports a solution to a long-standing puzzle about the birth of some of the most massive stars in the universe.
Last Updated: Friday, January 17, 2014, 00:04
NASA has released a stunning picture of the Orion Nebula which was constructed using infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 13:30
NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope, with its near-infrared vision, has uncovered a dazzling new view deep inside the Tarantula Nebula.
Last Updated: Saturday, December 14, 2013, 18:08
Astronomers have detected the first noble gas molecules in space in the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant.
Last Updated: Friday, October 25, 2013, 11:35
The Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known object in the Universe at a cosmologically crisp one degree Kelvin (minus 458 degrees Fahrenheit), scientists have claimed.
Last Updated: Thursday, September 19, 2013, 14:04
Astronomers have taken a new photograph that shows a glowing jumble of gas clouds make up a huge stellar nursery nicknamed the Prawn Nebula, which is located 6,000 years ago.
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 3, 2013, 14:40
Astronomers have successfully synthesized the distribution of atomic carbon around a planetary nebula NGC 6302 in test observations with the ALMA Band 8 receiver.
Last Updated: Friday, July 12, 2013, 19:31
Stars like the Sun can become remarkably photogenic at the end of their life, studies have revealed.
Last Updated: Thursday, June 6, 2013, 10:39
The Cat`s Paw Nebula, otherwise known as NGC 6334, is forming stars at a more rapid pace than the Orion Nebula, one of the closest stellar nurseries to Earth, according to astronomers.
Last Updated: Friday, May 24, 2013, 10:54
New observations by NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the real shape of the Ring Nebula.
Last Updated: Saturday, April 20, 2013, 12:08
ESA`s Herschel space observatory and the NASA/ ESA Hubble space telescope have captured new images of the Horsehead Nebula and its turbulent environment.
Last Updated: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 15:15
Astronomers have determined the distance to and history of an enigmatic stellar system, discovering it to likely be a binary star cocooned within an exotic nebula.
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