The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright objects on telescope images. The stars follow a nine-year orbit and are ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out and observe a planetary nebula in the ...

Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University) One of the most striking examples of a supernova remnant is the Crab Nebula, found in the constellation of Taurus. Sometime between April and June of ...

The snapshot above showcases NGC 1514, a planetary nebula that resides roughly 1,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus. Despite the term, however, NGC 1514 has nothing to do with ...

Westerlund 2 is a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars residing in a raucous stellar breeding called Gum 29, located 20,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Carina. Young stars 'feed ...

The star is actually one of two at the heart of NGC 1514, a nebula in the Taurus constellation about 1,500 light-years from Earth, NASA said in a news release. It is a white dwarf star that was ...