Head outside this week at around 10 p.m. local daylight time and face due east and locate the Ring Nebula for a summertime skywatching treat.

Nebula is Latin for "mist, vapor, fog, smoke, exhalation," but in an astronomical context, it refers to any celestial object that appears cloud-like when viewed through a telescope.

From a Mars rover selfie to an astronaut's view of the flower moon, these space images will give you a new perspective on our ...

Eagle Nebula This towering structure of billowing gas and dark, obscuring dust might only be a small portion of the Eagle Nebula, but it is no less majestic in appearance for it. 9.5 light-years ...

This stunning image of the Horsehead Nebula was taken with the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. ... about the size of those in smoke.

Smoke continues to shroud the sun as it rises behind the skyline of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in New York City, as seen from the Empty Sky 9/11 Memorial on June 7, 2023, in Jersey ...

The above image is not a real photograph of a so-called "Serenity Nebula." No such nebula has been documented, and the image is in fact a digital rendering of a nebula.

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star. Skip to content. Subscribe or renew today ...