This swath of dust, which blocks out light from the bright nebula Gum 55 behind it, is known as the Dark Wolf Nebula.

The nebula constitutes a clump of cloud in a larger complex known as Gum 55, a large region of glowing nebulosity in the ...

Our solar system resides in a unique low-density bubble called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). Stretching at least 1,000 ...

Stunning image captures werewolf nebula in the cosmic sky - The colourful clouds glow red because of the intense UV radiation ...

While some dark nebulas are visible to the naked eye, such as the Coalsack Nebula, that isn't true of the Dark Wolf Nebula.

Recently, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics made a surprising discovery within the LHB.

The European Southern Observatory captured a Halloween-themed image of the Dark Wolf Nebula, a hauntingly dense cloud of ...

and H-alpha), shows the amazing intricacies of the vast stellar nursery Gum 29. At its centre lies the cluster of young stars Westerlund 2. One object at the bottom of the cluster is in fact a ...

Earth, it looks like a black hole in space in the shape of a wolf. But it's actually a cloud of space dust in which stars are being created.

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop. Fittingly ...

This image takes up an area in the sky equivalent to four full moons, but is actually part of an even larger nebula called Gum 55. A collage highlighting some details within the huge Dark Wolf ...