A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

Wausau Pilot & Review Central Wisconsin skywatchers can look forward to a dynamic week of celestial events, from the official ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, June 20The summer solstice occurs at this evening at 10:42 P.M. EDT. For those in the Northern Hemisphere, this marks the official ...

While rockets today take humans to space as often as earthbound folks drive to the grocery store, traveling beyond the ...

NGC 6302, known as the Butterfly Nebula, is located between 2,500 and 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. The image includes near-ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared light.

Check out these seven mesmerising images of nebulas captured by NASA Hubble Space Telescope. Butterfly Nebula, Helix Nebula, Bubble Nebula, and more.

Ghost Nebula: Flowing veils of gas and dust in the constellation Cassiopeia, captured by Hubble Space Telescope. Orion Nebula: A vibrant star forming region with swirling gas and dust, captured by ...

Cassiopeia (pronounced kass ee oh pee’ uh) the Queen is one of the first constellations amateur astronomers come to recognize. That’s because its five brightest stars form an asterism that ...

When a supernova was seen glittering in the night sky for six months in 1181, it was so bright that Chinese and Japanese astronomers recorded it as a “guest star” in the Cassiopeia constellation.