A nebula by any other name — the Twin Jet Nebula, a fabulous cosmic butterfly with two lobes of jets, shooting gases at speeds more than a million kilometers per hour, was discovered by Rudolph ...

Dark smudges almost block out a rich star field in this new image captured by the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. The inky areas are small parts of a huge dark ...

The Coalsack Nebula, a prominent dark nebula visible to the naked eye in the Southern Hemisphere, appears as a large void within the Milky Way. While generally perceived as a uniform black patch, ...

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 light ...

NGC 7000, the North America Nebula, is a large emission nebula (2° by 1 2/3°) located near Deneb in the constellation Cygnus, and is part of a larger complex including the Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) and ...