However, a prominent dark ring appearing "a little to the north of the ‘St. Lawrence River' region" - treating the North America Nebula as a map of its namesake - attracted his attention.

Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula.

That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide), we see a ...

This stunning image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation where the two small planetary nebulas can be ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and try to observe a celestial object that’s quite difficult to see — the Horsehead Nebula. This dark nebula, made of dust and super-cold ...

The Flame Nebula, located 1,400 light-years from Earth, is a region where many stars are forming and is less than a million ...

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 ...