Tag: Emission Nebulae

  • NASA’s Hubble Spies Superbubble Scene

    NASA’s Hubble Spies Superbubble Scene

    This Hubble Space Telescope image features a sprawling cosmic vista called N44.

  • NASA’s Hubble Dazzles With Young Stars in Trifid Nebula

    NASA’s Hubble Dazzles With Young Stars in Trifid Nebula

    This shimmering region of star-formation, a close-up of the Trifid Nebula about 5,000 light-years from Earth, was captured in intricate detail by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The colors in Hubble’s visible light image, which marks the 36th anniversary of the…

  • NASA’s Hubble Revisits Crab Nebula to Track 25 Years of Expansion

    NASA’s Hubble Revisits Crab Nebula to Track 25 Years of Expansion

    A quarter-century after its first observations of the full Crab Nebula, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken a fresh look at the supernova remnant. The result is an unparalleled, detailed look at the aftermath of a supernova and how it…

  • Hubble Captures a Tarantula

    Hubble Captures a Tarantula

    This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called the Tarantula Nebula. Most of the nebulae Hubble images are in our galaxy, but this nebula is in the Large Magellanic Cloud,…

  • NASA’s Webb Scratches Beyond Surface of Cat’s Paw for 3rd Anniversary

    NASA’s Webb Scratches Beyond Surface of Cat’s Paw for 3rd Anniversary

    It’s the cat’s meow! To celebrate its third year of revealing stunning scenes of the cosmos in infrared light, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has “clawed” back the thick, dusty layers of a section within the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC…

  • Hubble Captures Cotton Candy Clouds

    Hubble Captures Cotton Candy Clouds

    This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbors, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. Located 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa, the Large Magellanic Cloud…

  • Hubble Captures a Star’s Swan Song

    Hubble Captures a Star’s Swan Song

    The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world opening before us. In fact, the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is very real. We are…

  • NASA Webb Explores Effect of Strong Magnetic Fields on Star Formation

    NASA Webb Explores Effect of Strong Magnetic Fields on Star Formation

    Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has revealed ejections from still-forming protostars and insights into the impact of strong…

  • Hubble Unveils a Glittering View of Sh2-284

    Hubble Unveils a Glittering View of Sh2-284

    A tiny fraction of the stellar nursery known as Sh2-284 is visible in this glittering, star-filled NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. This immense region of gas and dust is the birthing place of stars, which shine among the clouds. Bright…

  • Hubble Captures a Cosmic Cloudscape

    Hubble Captures a Cosmic Cloudscape

    The universe is a dusty place, as this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image featuring swirling clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula reveals. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and…