When professor Frank Israel graduated at Leiden Observatory some forty years ago, little did he know that one of his theories would be making headlines in 2018—in the form of a 3-D animation on the ...

The process that formed the giant planet Jupiter may also have spawned some of the tiniest and oldest members of our solar system -- millimeter-sized spheres called chondrules, the major part of the ...

An international team of astronomershas succeeded in capturing the most comprehensive infrared view ofthe famous Orion Nebula to date, highlighting a surprising amount offailed stars and small ...

In 1993, when the Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the Orion nebula for the first time, its images provided a substantial boost for the argument that stars with planetary systems are commonplace in the ...

Nebulae are some of the most beautiful structures to be found in space: vast clouds of dust and gas that are illuminated by light from nearby stars. These regions are often busy sites of star ...

Images of two iconic planetary nebulae taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are revealing new information about how they develop their dramatic features. Researchers from Rochester Institute of ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has provided some of the clearest views of the Egg Nebula, a stunning cosmic structure located about 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. Published on ...

In a stunning new image that marks the 36th anniversary of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have captured a ...

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Images of two iconic planetary nebulae taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are revealing new information about how they develop their dramatic features. Researchers from Rochester Institute of ...