In the cold dark of the constellation Ophiuchus, a faint, wraithlike shell of gas is quietly advertising the fate that awaits our own Sun. Astronomers call it the Little Ghost Nebula, a planetary ...

The Horsehead Nebula is one of the most iconic spectacles in astronomy, having been imaged and photographed from a myriad of telescopic instruments, including amateur telescopes, ground-based ...

NASA. LARGE FORMAT. HUBBLE. Impressive column of cold gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula. The stars of the Eagle Nebula are born in clouds of cold hydrogen adjacent to zones of chaos, 2015 Vintage ...