The universe is a slow-changing place. While it's mostly true that the heavens and the deep-sky objects in it will look ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the evening and point a telescope at one of the sky's finest planetary nebulae. This one's number 27 on ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just unveiled a new image of the Butterfly Nebula, and it isn’t just beautiful—it ...

The distribution of matter in a nebula is not uniform; some areas are denser while others are thinner. Under the influence of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured an unprecedented look inside a vibrant and glittering cluster of newborn stars drifting in the cosmos — some nearly eight times hotter than the sun.

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Massive stars in the Lobster Nebula carve dramatic shapes into cosmic dust while thousands of glittering young stars emerge ...