The clue to the central star's nomadic past comes in the form of a distinct bow shock observed adjacent to the star — a ...

"As enormous as this dusty pillar is, it's just one small piece of the greater Eagle Nebula." A breathtaking new image of the famous Eagle Nebula captures a towering pillar of gas and dust ...

The diagram shows the life cycles of stars that ... A star forms from massive clouds of dust and gas in space, also known as a nebula. Nebulae are mostly composed of hydrogen.

Previous observations of NGC 1514 have found that it hosts a pair of infrared-bright, axisymmetric rings lying nearly ...