Nebula are giant clouds of interstellar gas that play a key role in the life-cycle of stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...

Many scientific terms are very specific, but the term nebula is, well, nebulous. In a very generic sense, it simply means a fuzzy thing. But there are a wide variety of astronomical objects that can ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a nebula in the gorgeous colors of autumn, just in time for leaf-changing season in the northern hemisphere. It shows a part of a nebula called ...

Colorful and wispy Sharpless 2-296 forms the “wings” of an area of the sky known as the Seagull Nebula — named for its resemblance to a gull in flight. This celestial bird contains a fascinating mix ...

Below is the popularity graph of the name Nebula from 2011 to 2024, based on data from the SSA. Among the SSA compilation of popular girl's names over the past 10 years, the name Nebula ranked highest ...

Looking like a butterfly unfolding its wings, this image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the Twin Jet Nebula and its knots of expanding gas in amazing detail. Viewers can see ...

Kevin Gill knew that things were getting serious with his astrophotography when he sold an old guitar in order to buy a new camera. The software engineer has been capturing celestial objects from his ...

Self-shielding in the ultraviolet photodissociation of CO is thought to be responsible for large isotopic fractionation effects that are apparent in carbon and oxygen in molecular clouds 2,3.

WISE, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, has captured a view of a nebula that looks just like a Christmas wreath. (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA) Here's another seasonally appropriate ...