Greetings, stargazers. Emission nebulae are the subject of many of the most spectacular astrophotographs published in the last decade. Although there are many subcategories of nebulae, they all ...

On July 11, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope finished its commissioning and commenced science operations. In the three ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

To mark its third year of highly productive science, astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to scratch ...

A team of scientists has developed a new model to study ‘very massive stars’ and their impact on the formation of black holes ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

Emirates Astronomy Society achieves a historic milestone by photographing the Crescent Nebula, 5,000 light-years away, ...

This large gas bubble of ionized hydrogen and oxygen is formed and appears in fine detail when imaged using narrow-field ...

The Emirates Astronomical Society (EAS) announced a new achievement, adding to the accomplishments of its member ...

NGC 460 lies in a young region of stellar clusters and nebulae, home to brilliant O-type main-sequence stars—the hottest, ...

Rising 9.5 light-years high and 7,000 light-years away, this stunning pillar is captured in Hubble’s newly processed image ...

This deep view of the Orion Constellation glows in reddish hues thanks to a filtered view of hydrogen alpha emission, a type ...