NASA is honoring the Hubble Space Telescope's anniversary the best way it knows how: with a mind-blowing look into space. The agency released a Hubble snapshot of the Lagoon Nebula, which sits 4,000 ...

The world's largest telescope captured a deep-space nebula — an interstellar cloud of gas and dust that can produce new stars — in stunning detail, providing the first close-up view to date of the ...

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new image of the Butterfly Nebula, a grand and graceful cosmic wonder.

Every star you see in the night sky forms from a nebula, which is a large region of dust and gas in space. One such nebula, the Lagoon Nebula, is visible with binoculars or small telescopes and is ...

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a colorful view of the famous Trifid and Lagoon nebulas illuminated from within by radiation cast out by generations of energetic young stars. The 100 ...

Perched high in the foothills of Chile’s Andes mountains, a revolutionary new space telescope has just taken its first pictures of the cosmos—and they’re spectacular. Astronomers are excited about the ...

Taken by a 32-inch Schulman Telescope at the University of Arizona’s Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, the above image displays the Lagoon Nebula – also known as the Messir 8 (M8) – located in the constellation ...