B72, also called the Snake Nebula, in Ophiuchus is another of Barnard’s discoveries. When observing dark nebulae such as this, you’re looking for dark places in the heavens. Such a search ...

Dark nebulas, including a snake-shaped cosmic cloud, wind through this stunning skywatcher image. Astrophotographer John Chumack took this image focusing on Barnard 72 or the Snake Nebula from ...

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New images provide the most detailed view yet of stellar nurseries within the Snake nebula. These images offer new insights into how cosmic seeds can grow into massive stars. Stretching across ...

Feast your eyes on Lupus 3 — a nebula 600 light-years away from Earth in the Scorpius constellation. This cosmic region might look like a massive intergalactic storm brewing, but it’s really a ...

Paolo Candy’s image of the Snake Nebula (B72) on page 120 of the January 2006 issue of Astronomy reveals an area rich in both bright and dark regions. Dark nebulae are clouds of dust and cold ...

Scientists at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have taken a stunning new image of a distant nebula, birthplace of stars, hidden away in the literal tail-end of the snake constellation in space.

As for Serpens, the snake (or serpent), it's the only constellation that is cut into two pieces: The head of the Serpent lies west of Ophiuchus and is known as Serpens Caput, while to the east of ...

The nurseries are located in the Snake nebula, stretching across almost 100 light-years about 11,700 light-years from Earth, which was targeted by the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA ...

These two panels show the Snake nebula as photographed by the Spitzer and Herschel space telescopes. At mid-infrared wavelengths (the upper panel taken by Spitzer), the thick nebular material ...

New images from the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA) telescope provide the most detailed view yet of stellar nurseries within the Snake nebula. These images offer new insights into how ...