In the aftermath, nothing remained, except the intensely hot, newly revealed core of the star and an expanding cloud of gaseous debris, which today we refer to as the Crab Nebula. As of now ...

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory put together this spectacular shot showing part of the Orion cloud — a massive star-forming ... the left is the Flame Nebula, a ball of dust ...

Unlike many deep-sky objects, the Rosette Nebula actually looks like what it is named for: a huge wreath of gas and dust, 130 ...

The nebula was snapped earlier this year by the ESO's Very Large Telescope, one of the world's largest, which is in the Atacama desert in Chile. Nebulas are star factories. The dense cloud of ...